Why is the ugly "#f" Scheme's FALSE symbol rather than an empty list () ?

[Brad Beyenhof]

On Jan 27, 2008 11:38 AM, David Brown <kplug at davidb.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 07:47:45AM -0800, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
> >On Jan 27, 2008 12:28 AM, David Brown <kplug at davidb.org> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:41:23PM -0800, chris at seberino.org wrote:
> >> >When will mit-scheme "decide" to return #f instead?
> >>
> >> Version 9.0 (there is no 8.x).  It's already changed in CVS.
> >
> >I'm using 7.7.90.+, and I've never seen it return anything *but* #f
> >for the boolean false.
>
> Yeah, that's what happens when they wait 4+ years for a stable release.
> Everybody ends up using the testing release.
>
> Fortunately, they've resurrected the compile-to-C backend so that it will
> run on something other than just x86.  Gentoo claims x86_64, but not any
> other platforms.

Heh... I didn't even know it was a test build. It was just the current
version in the Ubuntu repositories.

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