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The original concept comes from a message to the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.scheme by Alan Bawden in 1993. A variant of that implementation by Richard Kelsey in the Scheme 48 system was also an influence. Apart from the origins, the main design goal has been consistency with the core types of Scheme.
Alan Bawden and Mark K. Gardner gave useful comments at an earlier attempt to make this specification public. (There was at least one other. Notes have gone missing.) SRFI feedback led to improved wording, hidden shapes, and two kinds of index objects.
The exact title of the proposal comes from a
message titled “a process that might work” by William D. Clinger to
the rrrs-authors mailing list in 1998. That appears to be a part
of the past of the SRFI
process.