Re: Using #true and #false everywhere?

[zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi Ricardo,

On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 13:12, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

> Comparison with EQ? is rarely useful in the context of Guix, because we
> usually don’t care about identity (“is the value behind this variable
> name and the value behind this other variable name one and the same,
> i.e. are the variables just aliases of an identical value?”)  but about
> equivalence (“does evaluating this expression lead to the same result as
> evaluating this other expression?”).

If you do not buy the 'eq?', maybe this one is more relevant:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix repl
GNU Guile 3.0.4
Copyright (C) 1995-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.

Enter `,help' for help.
scheme@(guix-user)> ,use(guix packages)
scheme@(guix-user)> ,use(gnu packages base)
scheme@(guix-user)> (package? hello)
$1 = #t
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So 'define-syntax define-record-type*' needs to be fixed to return
#true...  Well, to keep consistency it is not a small change and maybe
now is not a good timing.

All the best,
simon