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I do not think so, there are other things that were removed that I was surprised:
ASCII armor (base64, uuencode, quoted-printable)
B-trees
Cond and case extensions (SRFIs 61 and 87, case-using)
CSV parser
CURL interface
Curses
Data format validation
Execution time
Globbing
String templates
Telnet protocol
while/until
However Cowan was the only one who ever edited the file. Soo....