To be scrupulously fair, that seems to fall under > just being a local idiosyncracy albeit a stupid one; whereas Racket actively targets beginners in particul

To be scrupulously fair, that seems to fall under > just being a local idiosyncracy albeit a stupid one; whereas Racket actively targets beginners in particular. Also, this is ISO we're talking about here; we probably shouldn't expect anything technically competent from them that isn't just a rubber-stamped version of someone else's specification, and they didn't call it "ISO Standard Common Lisp" or "ISO Standard Scheme", presumably for good reason.