[plt-scheme] Semantics of quote

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 24 00:52:33 EDT 2008

(list +) is fine. In general, there are exactly as many unprintable
values as there were before, I believe (or at least there should be
...). Pretty-printing also seems okay, but I'm not sure where you're
going with that one.

Robby


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Jun 23, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 23, 2008, at 7:24 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
>>
>> > While what Carl says is true, I believe the spirit of the question is
>> > more like "why isn't constructor (or quasiquote) printing the default
>> > for the 'scheme' and related languages"?
>> >
>> > To which I say "I have suggested this myself! :)"
>>
>> By all means, go for it!
>
> -1 -- since this runs into a bunch of messes like not going well with
> pretty printing, or unprintable values like (list +)...
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>
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