[emiljbs]

>Common Lisp & Scheme encode maps, sets, etc in terms of lists.

What do you mean by this? You do know that I can write some reader macros to get the same syntactic sugar for dictionaries and vectors as in Clojure, right?

[snprbob86]

Of course you can, but almost no one does. If people started to do it a lot, it would be just as interesting as it is with Clojure.