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[John Cowan]

Thomas Lord scripsit:

> In any real implementation - one that minimally 
> is capable of some degree of hosting a meta-circular interpreter,
> say - we need primitive types for symbols, numbers, characters,
> strings, pairs, and vectors.  How else can you explain 
> tag bits to the kids?  :-)

As you know, I'd like to see characters flushed from Scheme and all
other languages.  That's not practical, though, given the high barriers
to removing IEEE Scheme features from small Scheme.

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but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be
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