[plt-scheme] MIT Scheme vs. DrScheme

From: Zbyszek Jurkiewicz (zbyszek at duch.mimuw.edu.pl)
Date: Fri Mar 7 05:45:42 EST 2003

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Michael Vanier wrote:

> Finally, there are some very trivial differences between the two
> implementations, such as:
> 
> -- MIT scheme considers the empty list () and the boolean #f to be the same
>    thing; DrScheme doesn't.  I prefer the DrScheme behavior.

Take care, this difference is far from being trivial.  Probably half of 
the popular packages depend on assumed option for this behavior (note
that I am optimistic ;-)

Zbyszek Jurkiewicz
  


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