> Which also raises an idea: now that TR is getting going, maybe we > should have another step on this scripts-to-programs slope that is > _lower_ than Racket. A language where we really only have one single > datatype and "everything just works" on it, hashes being the obvious > one (altho we probably should not _call_ them hashes; we should call > them "the scracket value" or something).
Guillaume's been doing all his programming lately with just such an infrastructure, and can't sing its praises enough. The associative table really is a powerful abstraction for lightweight programming, especially when combined with overloading of the form Matthew initially suggested. Shriram _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev