[plt-scheme] Semantics of quote
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 04:06:55PM -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
> The sad thing is that this is needlessly confusing, especially for
> beginners. It is one of the reasons we have teaching languages that
> (1) don't allow quote for anything but symbols (pop quiz: is ''a a
> symbol?) and (2) renders things as constructed values (think abstract
> or universal algebra, if you're familiar with that).
Out of curiosity, why isn't constructor-style printing the default for
the module language as well?
~ Aleks