In one of the later chapters, the book Lisp in Small Pieces (great book), shows you how to write a a Scheme compiler to C. The general idea is you create a stru

In one of the later chapters, the book Lisp in Small Pieces (great book), shows you how to write a a Scheme compiler to C. The general idea is you create a structure that contains a union type of all types in the dynamic language, and also a tag that tells you which type it is.