On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Alan Post <alanp...@sunflowerriver.org> wrote:
> Typically, all objects in a scheme system are stored with a tag, > indicating the object type. Basically, whether it is an atom or a > cons. > > For an atom, the data is stored immediately after the tag. Actually, in Chicken it isn't. A symbol (atom) is a 3-pointer object: the top-level value, the name of the symbol, and the property list. A string has a header word followed directly by the bytes in the string. _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
