From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: doc eq? eqv? equal? Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:26:15 +1000 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87r7q2a9c8.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1092965216 1169 80.91.224.253 (20 Aug 2004 01:26:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:26:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 20 03:26:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BxyB8-0004W9-00 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 03:26:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BxyFP-0002eY-G5 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:31:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BxyFM-0002eJ-Ex for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:31:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BxyFK-0002dq-Qw for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:31:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BxyFK-0002dV-LJ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:31:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [61.8.0.85] (helo=mailout2.pacific.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BxyAk-00062N-Cb for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 21:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailproxy1.pacific.net.au (mailproxy1.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.86]) by mailout2.pacific.net.au (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id i7K1QOje013807 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:26:24 +1000 Original-Received: from localhost (ppp2529.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.37.41]) by mailproxy1.pacific.net.au (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id i7K1QNlY018619 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:26:23 +1000 Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BxyAZ-0002zk-00; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:26:15 +1000 Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3987 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3987 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. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel