carlgay

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Which Scheme Implementation to use in c/lisp
It's symbols not strings are fundamental data type, an insight from read. in c/emacs
[โ€“] carlgay@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

(read) returns whatever the type of its input was. If you enter a string literal it returns a string, if you enter a symbol literal it returns a symbol, if you enter a numeric literal it returns a number, etc.