Re: [Scheme-reports] Fwd: R7RS

[Vassil Nikolov <vnikolov@x>]

On Sat, 4 May 2013 15:16:50 -0400, John Cowan <cowan@x> said:
> ...
> Indeed, the context of the R6RS discussion of May 2007 shows that the real
> topic of discussion was identity vs. immutability: must immutable values
> have object identity?

  And answering this question should especially take into account
  whether, like procedures (and unlike numbers, immutable lists,
  immutable strings, immutable vectors), there is no other way of
  testing those values for equality.

  ---Vassil.

  2013-05-04.


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Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов | <vnikolov@x>

"Be careful how you fix what you don't understand."  (Brooks 2010, 185)

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