[plt-scheme] Semantics of quote

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 24 00:53:12 EDT 2008

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> (list +)
(list +)
>

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> (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 +)...
>> --
>>          ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay:
>>                  http://www.barzilay.org/                 Maze is Life!
>>
>>
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