From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Surprising behavior of eq?
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 18:18:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200920161821.GA15676@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6da5e36-8532-065d-a3b6-00fd3606324c@posteo.de>
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On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 05:37:45PM +0200, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote:
> Hello John, hello Stefan!
[...]
> Of course SO is not a standard. Either it is simply wrong, or I
> misunderstood "primitive values" in that phrase. I thought: "Ah strings
> are a primitive value, so eqv? should work in all cases when comparing
> strings." However, this has been debunked.
Strings are mutable in Guile, so probably not what's called "primitive
values":
scheme@(guile-user)> (define str (string-copy "the quick brown fox"))
scheme@(guile-user)> (string-set! str 6 #\a)
scheme@(guile-user)> str
$3 = "the quack brown fox"
But string literals bark at you if you try to mutate them (that's why
I slyly created that one with `string-copy'):
scheme@(guile-user)> (define str "the quick brown fox")
scheme@(guile-user)> (string-set! str 6 #\a)
ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception:
string is read-only: "the quick brown fox"
Cheers
- t
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-20 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-20 12:16 Surprising behavior of eq? Zelphir Kaltstahl
2020-09-20 12:19 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2020-09-20 12:58 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-09-20 13:09 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2020-09-20 13:52 ` John Cowan
2020-09-20 15:37 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2020-09-20 16:18 ` tomas [this message]
2020-09-20 17:05 ` John Cowan
2020-09-20 20:51 ` Linus Björnstam
2020-09-20 21:42 ` John Cowan
2020-09-20 13:57 ` Stefan Schmiedl
2020-09-20 15:42 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2020-09-20 17:26 ` Taylan Kammer
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