--- This message is a formal comment which was submitted to formal-comment_at_r6rs.org, following the requirements described at: http://www.r6rs.org/process.html --- Submitter: John Cowan Email address: cowan_at_ccil.org Issue type: Enhancement Priority: Major Component: Program Syntax Report version: 5.92 Summary: Datums should be self-evaluating generally. At present, the only self-evaluating datums are numbers, booleans, characters, and strings, as noted in report section 6.3. This list is fundamentally historical. There is no principled reason why other kinds of datums, such as the empty list, vectors, and bytevectors should not be self-evaluating. Let's make them so. -- John Cowan <cowan_at_ccil.org> http://www.ccil.org/~cowan It's like if you meet an really old, really rich guy covered in liver spots and breathing with an oxygen tank, and you say, "I want to be rich, too, so I'm going to start walking with a cane and I'm going to act crotchety and I'm going to get liver disease. --Wil ShipleyReceived on Sat Jan 20 2007 - 19:16:56 UTC
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