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 18.1.4 Guile Is Hairier
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 We originally started with a very simple typing system -- each object
 has a field that indicates its type.  Then, for the sake of efficiency
 in both time and space, we moved some of the typing information directly
 into the `SCM' value, and left the rest in the `struct value'.  Guile
 itself employs a more complex hierarchy, storing finer and finer
 gradations of type information in different places, depending on the
 object's coarser type.
 
    In the author's opinion, Guile could be simplified greatly without
 significant loss of efficiency, but the simplified system would still be
 more complex than what we've presented above.
 

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