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Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 17:24:28 -0400<br>
From: Matthias Felleisen <<a href="mailto:matthias@ccs.neu.edu"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace;display:inline">​​</div>matthias@ccs.neu.edu</a>><br>
To: Konrad Hinsen <<a href="mailto:konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net">konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net</a>><br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:users@racket-lang.org">users@racket-lang.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [racket] Blog post about Racket<br>
Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:FBF1D0B4-C5E4-4D66-B4C0-431473872607@ccs.neu.edu">FBF1D0B4-C5E4-4D66-B4C0-431473872607@ccs.neu.edu</a>><br>
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<br>In order to turn a Racket (Lisp, Scheme)<br>
program into Rackete data, you to perform (roughly) the<br>
following actions: add '( to the beginning of the program<br>
and add ) to its end.<br>
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<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">​Really?  I thought it is adding a single quote <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;display:inline">'</code> before a program.<br>

Removing <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;display:inline">'(</code> and <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;display:inline">)</code> from <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;display:inline">'(+ 1 2)</code> does not give a valid Lisp<br>

program.</p>
<p style="margin:1.2em 0px!important">—<br>Yi</p>
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