[plt-scheme] On hygiene and trust

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Robby
Findler<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Joe Marshall<jmarshall at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> But strings aren't isomorphic to lists.  Code is.
>
> It isn't too hard to map every list to a string and vice-versa.

It gets harder to map every list operation into a string operation.
There's no obvious equivalent to set-cdr!
(or, in the other direction, string-set!)


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