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Mandatory­Docket

cowan
2012-11-29 04:00:36
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These are things to consider making mandatory in the large language that are optional in the small language.

Full numeric tower support (bignums, ratios, flonums, compnums)

Full Unicode support (all Unicode characters as characters, all Unicode characters except perhaps U+0000 in strings)