@sp 10
@comment The title is printed in a large font.
@title Data Representation in Guile
-@subtitle $Id: data-rep.texi,v 1.3 1998-10-15 22:06:34 jimb Exp $
+@subtitle $Id: data-rep.texi,v 1.4 1999-04-17 15:16:18 jimb Exp $
@subtitle For use with Guile @value{VERSION}
@author Jim Blandy
@author Free Software Foundation
in general, determine the type of a given expression at compile time.
Types only become apparent at run time. Variables do not have fixed
types; a variable may hold a pair at one point, an integer at the next,
-and a thousand-element vector later. Instead, values have fixed types.
+and a thousand-element vector later. Instead, values, not variables,
+have fixed types.
In order to implement standard Scheme functions like @code{pair?} and
@code{string?} and provide garbage collection, the representation of