[paniq303]

S-expressions are not a special case of the syntax, S-expressions are the syntax. There are two notations, one is naked, python-looking, and one is traditionally braced, lispy-looking. It is possible to enter from one notation into the other at any point, depending on what suits the situation best.

Scopes has no garbage collection. There will be garbage collection for compile time symbols at some point, but the runtime is completely manually managed. That is a big difference to Scheme, although Scheme has been a major influence to Scopes design, and features that I believe to set Lisp/Scheme apart from other languages have been adopted.

Scopes is statically typed, but type signatures are not elementary to function definitions and value declarations, as with Scheme. It is a little limited with its compile-time closures though, whose application as first class values is limited.