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Re: printed representation -> C string



On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Jim Blandy wrote:
>
> But I always get a suspicious feeling when someone asks a question
> like this.  Objects should almost always stay in Scheme form for as
> long as possible.  Can you tell us more about what you're trying to
> do?
> 

I wrote a Gtk widget to take expressions in one text entry and show the
result of evaluating them in another, sort of a little dialog box for
talking to the interpreter. It's probably pretty useless because a repl in
an xterm is just as good, or better, but it was an educational exercise.

Thanks,
 Havoc Pennington