On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:31 PM, John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Rutledge scripsit: > >> [W]hy should I have to re-create functionality which is one of the >> most basic features of Scheme (being able to look up symbols and get >> values bound to them) > > Actually, it isn't: Scheme has no such facility. Symbols in Scheme > have no properties except their print names. (In Chicken and Chez, > but not in most other Schemes, they also have a p-list which you can > exploit for the environment I mentioned in my last posting.) It's true > that Scheme binds *identifiers* to values, but there is no requirement > that identifiers are represented by symbols, or at all, at run time.
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