Re: Growing a data type?

Ali wrote:

Here's a (hopefully) fun question: If Lisp didn't have a string data
type already, could you grow one which was indistinguishable from the
standard implementation, including double quote delimiters?

Yes, set-macro-character to reprogram the reader, and for string storage
you could use plenty of things, including of course lists (would be a
bit slow but would work.)
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