CSE 341 Spring 96 -- 4/1/96 ======================================================= -- New summary: main concepts and suggested readings -- Newsgroup: uwash.course.cse341; now on MSCC, soon on CSE ====================== Last time: 1. Characters and strings 2. Data types and the inspector 3. Symbols: they are data structures with three pieces of information: -- name (aka "print name") -- value (a *pointer* to another object) -- function (a *pointer* to some executable code) 4. Symbols are not self-evaluating -- a symbol evaluates to its value field -- to refer to the symbol itself, use QUOTE ======================================================== For today: 1. Symbols and equality 2. The Boolean data type revisited xx 3. Keyword symbols xx 4. The last basic data type: the CONS xx -- building and manipulating lists xx 5. Lists and the REPL