#1 - srfi 9 solves this mostly, though I agree about the long names. If your implementation doesn't bundle that for you, you should probably use a different imp

#1 - srfi 9 solves this mostly, though I agree about the long names. If your implementation doesn't bundle that for you, you should probably use a different implementation. #2 - preach it. #3 - The "big" schemes provide hash tables for you. #4 - Well... fexprs used to be standard in lisp, but implementers didn't enjoy figuring out what a symbol meant at compile time. I dunno, I really enjoy coding in scheme. Especially syntax-rules. I know syntax-case is the bees knees, but syntax-rules is pretty easy for me to model quickly.