Re: [Chicken-users] case vs. eq? - just curious ....

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> Contrary to popular belief and other Lisps, Scheme is really quite a
> "static" language and lacks many of the more dynamic introspection
> facilities of languages and systems like CLOS, Ruby or (shudder!) PHP.

Don't forget Python, where even definitions are executable.  Though modern
Scheme is not as static as R4RS or ISLisp, where there is not even `eval`.
(Of course these languages are not static in the sense of static typing.)

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