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Scheme Syntax Basics

• Case-insensitive

• Data Types:
  • Atoms: identifiers, symbols, numbers
  • Lists (S-expressions)
    • List form: parenthesized collections of sublists and/or atoms
    • (a b c d)
    • (a (b c) d e)

• All lists are internally represented by singly-linked chains where each node has 2 pointers (think "data" and "next")