Re: "One-cell" language?
Chris Angelico <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Henrik Grubbström <[email protected]> wrote: > The mention of Scheme hints at that it refers to one of the differences > between Scheme and other dialects of LISP. Yes, I figured that would be the case, and used 'scheme' as part of my searching. > In traditional LISP dialects like InterLISP and CommonLISP symbols were > bound to property lists ie a symbol could hold multiple values concurrently > (multi-cell LISP). > > See eg https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node108.html > > In more modern dialects like eg Scheme symbols are bound directly to values > (single-cell LISP). Thanks. Would it be worth putting something about this in the docs, or would a Scheme programmer know already what it's talking about? ChrisA