Re:What Made Lisp Different (2002)
by lispm on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @01:55AM
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Lisp also has first and rest.
Scheme isn't based on immutability.
R7RS:
> Literal constants, the strings returned by symbol->string, and possibly the environment returned by scheme-report-environment are immutable ob jects. All objects created by the other procedures listed in this report are mutable.
> {}, [], ...
These characters are reserved for the user in CL and have been used for a bunch of different things.
Scheme isn't based on immutability.
R7RS:
> Literal constants, the strings returned by symbol->string, and possibly the environment returned by scheme-report-environment are immutable ob jects. All objects created by the other procedures listed in this report are mutable.
> {}, [], ...
These characters are reserved for the user in CL and have been used for a bunch of different things.