Re: "One-cell" language?

That description is not terribly relevant anymore. It would be easier to
say "it works like python".


On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
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