Scheme language standardization process
On 24 May 2013 21:55, Alaric Snell-Pym <alaric@x> wrote: > 1) What about printed representations? I feel there should be a written > syntax for important data structures in Scheme, and that literals should > self-evaluate. Needless to say, I don't think "Oh, just write out code > that will construct one" is very useful, as that only solves the problem > for literals in source code - not for being able to write and then read > an sexpr to communicate data across a channel. > The problem with this is that e.g. a set is a collection of items *and* also an equivalence predicate, which can be any arbitrary procedure, and arbitrary procedures can not be written out. _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list Scheme-reports@x http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports