"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. ^_^
