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 14 Basic Ideas in Scheme
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 In this chapter, we introduce the basic concepts that underpin the
 elegance and power of the Scheme language.
 
    Readers who already possess a background knowledge of Scheme may
 happily skip this chapter.  For the reader who is new to the language,
 however, the following discussions on data, procedures, expressions and
 closure are designed to provide a minimum level of Scheme understanding
 that is more or less assumed by the reference chapters that follow.
 
    The style of this introductory material aims about halfway between
 the terse precision of R5RS and the discursive randomness of a Scheme
 tutorial.
 

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* About Data                  Latent typing, types, values and variables.
* About Procedures            The representation and use of procedures.
* About Expressions           All kinds of expressions and their meaning.
* About Closure               Closure, scoping and environments.
 

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