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| From: | waterloo |
| Subject: | what is `self-typing' ? |
| Date: | Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:53:47 +0800 |
Lisp is unlike many other languages in that its objects are
"self-typing": the primitive type of each object is implicit in the
object itself. For example, if an object is a vector, nothing can
treat it as a number; Lisp knows it is a vector, not a number.
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