Re: anonymous lists

[Paul Haahr <haahr@mv.us.adobe.com>]

> I think Paul argues for flattening all lists in his usenix paper, saying
> that it was more appropriate in a shell.  (Sorry Paul, if I misread it :-) )

that's it, exactly.

> I can see Paul's point in a shell, although I have to admit that is
> is useful sometimes to be able to have nested lists.

agreed, but two forms of lists (one of which can be exported) seems
too confusing to put in one language.

on the other hand, you could always use some variant on the cons/car/cdr
example from the paper if you need an sexpr-like data structure.