Bradley Lucier scripsit:

> I don't think we need that convention here, scheme has perfectly good
> non-array objects.

But so do Common Lisp, NumPy, Julia, and most significantly Racket
<http://docs.racket-lang.org/math/array_quick.html>.
I agree that Matlab is not a good model here, as it is APL-like.

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