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> An <sre> is not a data type. It is a language. This is like having > 'valid-syntax?' to check an expression before you call 'eval' with it. On this point, actually the SRE Syntax section of the SRFI draft states "Note that an SRE is a first-class object consisting of nested lists of strings, chars, char-sets, symbols and numbers. Where the syntax is described as (foo bar), this can be constructed equivalently as '(foo bar) or (list 'foo 'bar), etc." Kevin Wortman