carlgay@alien.topBtoEmacs@communick.news•It's symbols not strings are fundamental data type, an insight from read.English
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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.
https://irvise.xyz/Blog/scheme-implementation-comparison.html seems useful.