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In addition to the Global Environment, the Scheme evaluator maintains another structure called the global store. A store is an array of data containers called cells. A value that can be contained in a cell is called a storable value. Not all values are storable; for now we will identify storable values with simple values (numbers, Booles, chars, symbols, etc.) and the empty list:
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Pearce, J. (1998). Variables. In: Programming and Meta-Programming in Scheme. Undergraduate Texts in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1682-7_8
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