Oh, sorry, me and some person on the list named Danny forgot to cc our conversation the other day to the list. Danny wrote: <div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/3 Danny Yoo <<a href="mailto:dyoo@cs.wpi.edu">dyoo@cs.wpi.edu</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Jon Loldrup <<a href="mailto:loldrup@gmail.com">loldrup@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Hi > > I'm working through The Little Schemer and I've comed to the point where > they introduce types (page 181). They use terms like: </div>Keep going a few more pages. The book's dialogue turns toward what shape the actions need to have. After that, it finally starts introducing those definitions on Page 183. </blockquote></div> To which I replied: Ahh - smart :) Jon Loldrup <div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/5 Matthias Felleisen <<a href="mailto:matthias@ccs.neu.edu">matthias@ccs.neu.edu</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Apr 5, 2009, at 3:45 PM, David Van Horn wrote: Thanks for looking it up.<div class="im"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Rereading this part of TLS, I can only conclude that this was written before Matthias visited the pope. </blockquote> </div> I suspect you're wrong. Again no where close to a book, but look at the copy right. ;; --- The exercise in 10 is quite interesting in some strange way. Get the interpreter to work in the language of the book so that it behaves just like the book, regardless of which Scheme you run in. (There was some silly nil-#f issue in the air back then ... another one of those discussions on 'standards' that generated a lot of heat.) -- Matthias </blockquote></div>