Xref: utzoo comp.lang.lisp:2041 comp.lang.scheme:785 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!sunic!liuida!uda From: uda@majestix.ida.liu.se (Ulf Dahlen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: "Scheme has data types and Lisp doesn't." Message-ID: <1334@majestix.ida.liu.se> Date: 17 Aug 89 19:48:15 GMT References: <9085@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <13046@well.UUCP> <711@skye.ed.ac.uk> <13120@well.UUCP> <737@skye.ed.ac.uk> Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden Lines: 19 In article <737@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.uucp (Jeff Dalton) writes: >In article <13120@well.UUCP> nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle) writes: >>Common LISP has lots of declarations. But the programmer isn't required >>to provide them and the compiler implementor isn't required to make them >>do much. CLTL: [...] Not that SCHEME is really all that different. > >I knew about all of the things you cite in CLtL. I still don't see >how it explains the claim that "Scheme has data types and Lisp doesn't." > >-- Jeff Well, the claim is false! __________ Ulf Dahlen Dept of Computer & Info Science, University of Linkoping, Sweden Troskaregatan 51:23 | uda@ida.liu.se S-583 30 LINKOPING | uda@majestix.liu.se, uda@liuida.UUCP SWEDEN | {mcvax,munnari,seismo}!enea!liuida!uda "The beginning is a very delicate time."