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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by lispm on Friday August 26, 2016 @06:22AM (#12365310)
> What changed that makes you think that?

R6RS

> As for Clojure not having Lisp lists, its list implementation is... eccentric, but it DOES have lists.

Lazy persistent sequences is the basic abstraction.

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Re:Dinosaur and Lisp by qwertyuiop924 on Friday August 26, 2016 @07:52AM (#12365541)
Uggghh. R6RS was an absolute mess. But I'd still say it was a lisp.

Have you looked at R7RS, the latest spec, that goes back to the drawing board on a lot of the stuff R6RS did?

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