minus-squarecarlgay@alien.topBtoEmacs@communick.news•It's symbols not strings are fundamental data type, an insight from read.linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago(read) returns whatever the type of its input was. If you enter a string literal it returns a string, if you enter a symbol literal it returns a symbol, if you enter a numeric literal it returns a number, etc. linkfedilink
(read)returns whatever the type of its input was. If you enter a string literal it returns a string, if you enter a symbol literal it returns a symbol, if you enter a numeric literal it returns a number, etc.