It seems like you're talking about LISP. Isn't a Cons a simple pair set? And wasn't LISP originally simply a mathematical proof? (Forgive my naivetie, I don't know much about LISP, and have used it only in mutant forms).

"From a practical standpoint, the only real difference between a feature that's in the core language and a feature that's in a core library is the extra commands required to include the library, and how awkward the syntax is."

I'm not exploring what happens to the language when things are removed from the core, but rather if anything useful can happen to programmers and the way they program when the internal representation changes.

But actually, I'm not even exploring that. I'm trying to figure out what Perl programmers can do if Perl represented scalars and hashes as lists.

In reply to Re^2: Representing all data as Lists by rje
in thread Representing all data as Lists (Perl7?) by rje

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