1 Welcome to PLT Scheme
2 Scheme Essentials
3 Built-In Datatypes
4 Expressions and Definitions
5 Programmer-Defined Datatypes
6 Modules
7 Contracts
8 Input and Output
9 Regular Expressions
10 Exceptions and Control
11 Iterations and Comprehensions
12 Pattern Matching
13 Classes and Objects
14 Units (Components)
15 Reflection and Dynamic Evaluation
16 Macros
17 Performance
18 Running and Creating Executables
19 Compilation and Configuration
20 More Libraries
Bibliography
Index
Version: 4.0.2

 

3 Built-In Datatypes

The previous chapter introduced some of Scheme’s built-in datatypes: numbers, booleans, strings, lists, and procedures. This section provides a more complete coverage of the built-in datatypes for simple forms of data.

    3.1 Booleans

    3.2 Numbers

    3.3 Characters

    3.4 Strings (Unicode)

    3.5 Bytes and Byte Strings

    3.6 Symbols

    3.7 Keywords

    3.8 Pairs and Lists

    3.9 Vectors

    3.10 Hash Tables

    3.11 Boxes

    3.12 Void and Undefined