(Re: ...) Strings and quotations

dmitry_n_petrov@yahoo.com — 2001-10-18 09:59:43

If strings are quotations, then they can be unquoted.



Such understanding of string does not require programs to be

represented as strings (if this is a bad thing), but it needs a

built-in interpreter, to unquote strings. Problem here is that strings

are first-class values, and do not have structure that quotations (and

lists) actually have. Compile-time semantic analysis also becomes a

problem: one can not know any semantic properties of quotation, that

is a result of a string operation.



If I am wrong, please, tell me, where and why.