Re: An Acceptable Lisp

Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
What about basic data types; what about the type system itself?
This is covered by the Special Operator THE ;-)
ATOM?

(THE ATOM 42)

Ok, with handler-bind (and the corresponding evaluator-internal
primitive), it can work (you'll have to catch the error that occurs for
non-atoms and return nil in that case.)
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