Re: naive query about scsh

roger purves <[email protected]> writes:

> to  scsch adepts:
>
> 1. With little knowledge of unix etc, I managed to get scsh running under
>     Terminal (tcsh; Mac OS X (version 10.2.8); November 2001 ibook).
>     I didn't understand why (car '(a b c)) returned 'a. See below. Is it
>     because Scheme 48 is different from other Schemes? Or perhaps
>     because I did not put "(car '(a b c))" in a shell script?

car '(a b c)) should return the symbol a in every Scheme.  CAR, when
applied to a non-empty list, returns its first element.

> 2. This is the second Scheme I have tried to get working under Terminal.
>     In each case, using the "delete' key to backspace and delete has
>     failed to work under the Scheme prompt. (But it does work when
>     typing in straight unix commands). Is there something wrong
>     with Terminal?

Having the Del key delete backwards is the standard Unix mapping for
this key; it has nothing to do with scsh.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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