Thomas Lord scripsit: > In any real implementation - one that minimally > is capable of some degree of hosting a meta-circular interpreter, > say - we need primitive types for symbols, numbers, characters, > strings, pairs, and vectors. How else can you explain > tag bits to the kids? :-)
As you know, I'd like to see characters flushed from Scheme and all other languages. That's not practical, though, given the high barriers to removing IEEE Scheme features from small Scheme. -- John Cowan [email protected] http://ccil.org/~cowan Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that optimum or inadequate performance in the trend of competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account. --Ecclesiastes 9:11, Orwell/Brown version _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
