Mikael Tillenius <mti_at_tillenius.com> writes:
> But we cannot ignore the fact that "set-car!", "vector-set!" and "eq?"
> are part of the languge.
As I said, it's the tutorial. It makes no claims as to completeness,
quite the opposite, in fact.
>> Moreover, this section is quite explicit (in the first two
>> sentences) about the fact that no complete characterization is given here.
>>
> I assume you mean the first two sentences of section 1. What confuses
> me is that I can find no definition of what a datum value is outside
> of subsection 1.9.
The definition is on page 11, approximately in the middle of the
right-hand column.
> Btw, I really like the introduction of datum values. I think earlier
> revisions of the report was a bit unclear about if Scheme programs
> were sequences of characters (as implied by the grammar) or
> S-expressions (as implied by e.g. macros).
Thanks for the praise---this also bothered me about the previous
report, and I worked hard to improve this aspect.
--
Cheers =8-} Mike
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Received on Fri Feb 23 2007 - 11:56:06 UTC