Xref: utzoo comp.lang.lisp:2038 comp.lang.scheme:782 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!edcastle!aiai!jeff From: jeff@aiai.uucp (Jeff Dalton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme Subject: Re: "Scheme has data types and Lisp doesn't." Message-ID: <737@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 15 Aug 89 14:52:37 GMT References: <9085@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <13046@well.UUCP> <711@skye.ed.ac.uk> <13120@well.UUCP> Sender: news@aiai.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: jeff@aiai.uucp (Jeff Dalton) Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 9 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