As I'm sure you're aware, conses and tables are an arbitrary part of the example. ^_^ If you wanted anything to act as both a 'num and a 'cons, then all conses would be nums too.
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"Me too. Personally, I want to just go in and rip up things[...]"
Yeah... I wonder if I should be forking your ar instead of working on aw's. >.> It would become a fork of a fork of a fork of an Arc. :-p Maybe since it's hard to pull-request all those changes, you could treat your ar as a separate project?
Eh, I'm not usually one to make an Arc spinoff from existing source anyway. I'm more likely to either give advice from the sidelines or start from Racket (or JavaScript) and implement utility layers on top of it until I have a system I like. So don't worry about my participation either way, heh. ^_^;
"As I'm sure you're aware, conses and tables are an arbitrary part of the example. ^_^ If you wanted anything to act as both a 'num and a 'cons, then all conses would be nums too."
Of course, I was joking. Wait a second... we could Church encode numbers... then they really would be conses...! (I wonder how much longer I could keep this up :P)
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"Maybe since it's hard to pull-request all those changes, you could treat your ar as a separate project?"
Yeah, I'm kinda leaning toward that, especially since some of my changes break backwards compatibility, and aw has made it pretty clear that Arc/ar is aiming at compatibility.
"I wonder how much longer I could keep this up :P"
Probably until we reach "Everything's an object." Then we can take a look at all the ways we distinguish certain objects from others, and we can start all over again. ^_^
