Re:Go 2, here we come
by shakna on Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:22PM
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Scheme has an explicit minimalist philosophy, so much so that when R6RS was released with too many conveniences it fractured the language and community. Now there's two specs, R7RS-small and R7RS-big, and they're far less popular than R5RS.
Rationals are also the default number type.
Lists are the base type used throughout Scheme, and can be used to implement arrays and hashmaps and whatnot, so Scheme doesn't really need them, you can just use a library.
... That didn't stop the committee adding types to the spec. Like records, promises and other complex types.
What is useful and necessary to a language isn't defined by what the processor can natively do, or we'd only use registers, not arrays. And it isn't defined by a overbearing attitude towards one or more philosophies.
Rationals are also the default number type.
Lists are the base type used throughout Scheme, and can be used to implement arrays and hashmaps and whatnot, so Scheme doesn't really need them, you can just use a library.
... That didn't stop the committee adding types to the spec. Like records, promises and other complex types.
What is useful and necessary to a language isn't defined by what the processor can natively do, or we'd only use registers, not arrays. And it isn't defined by a overbearing attitude towards one or more philosophies.