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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Subject: doc eq? eqv? equal?
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:26:15 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r7q2a9c8.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)

I'm looking to polish the docs for eq?, eqv? and equal? a bit.  r5rs
says numbers are unspecified for eq?, even going so far as to say

	(let ((n (+ 2 3)))
	  (eq? n n))       => *unspecified*

I guess that's meant to allow something wild and strange to represent
numbers.

In guile "(eq? x x)" is always going to be true, but I'm wondering if
the docs should describe only the weaker r5rs behaviour, and advise
eqv? for anything involving numbers.


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             reply	other threads:[~2004-08-20  1:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-20  1:26 Kevin Ryde [this message]
2004-08-20 10:26 ` doc eq? eqv? equal? Marius Vollmer
2004-08-22  1:54   ` Kevin Ryde
2004-08-24 17:24     ` Marius Vollmer
2004-09-02  1:24       ` Kevin Ryde

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