On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Thomas Lord<[email protected]> wrote: > Scheme is interesting for more than just its math properties, > though. It's also interesting because of how its math > properties harmonize so nicely with various implementation > techniques. 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? :-) >
Does not a meta-circular compiler deserve as much attention as a meta-circular interpreter? When you evaluate it, will its meaning not be as ungrounded? Lynn _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
