[plt-scheme] Re: Scheme workshop survey

In the message shown below, I offended the rules of W. V. Quine.
Sorry. But if you see which error I made, then may be it may help.
Jos

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jos Koot" <jos.koot at telefonica.net>
To: "Shriram Krishnamurthi" <sk at cs.brown.edu>; "Richard Cleis" 
<rcleis at me.com>
Cc: "PLT Scheme" <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] Re: Scheme workshop survey


> You are pressing things, I think. It's a matter of notation.
> I am quite happy with:
> (car (cons <a> <b>)) --> $<a>
> where $<a> means "the value of <a>".
> Jos
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shriram Krishnamurthi" <sk at cs.brown.edu>
> To: "Richard Cleis" <rcleis at me.com>
> Cc: "PLT Scheme" <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 11:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] Re: Scheme workshop survey
>
>
>> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Richard Cleis <rcleis at me.com> wrote:
>>> Does the following progression make sense, by ordinary standards of
>>> Ameringlish?
>>>
>>> (car '((a b c) x y z)) is '(a b c)
>>>
>>> The value of (car '((a b c) x y z)) is (a b c)
>>
>> Not to me.
>>
>>  (a b c)
>>
>> is an expression, not a value.  It may also be the print
>> representation chosen by some particular implementation for some
>> particular value, but then so is
>>
>>  /---+---+---\
>>  | a | b | c |
>>  \---+---+---/
>>
>> (Do you see my point?)
>>
>> Shriram
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