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Weakness of "non-object" types taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (04 Dec 2015 10:51 UTC)
Re: Weakness of "non-object" types Takashi Kato (04 Dec 2015 12:28 UTC)
Re: Weakness of "non-object" types taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (04 Dec 2015 12:54 UTC)
Re: Weakness of "non-object" types Takashi Kato (04 Dec 2015 14:27 UTC)
Re: Weakness of "non-object" types taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (04 Dec 2015 16:51 UTC)
Re: Weakness of "non-object" types John Cowan (04 Dec 2015 15:12 UTC)
Re: Weakness of "non-object" types taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (04 Dec 2015 16:41 UTC)
Re: Weakness of "non-object" types John Cowan (05 Dec 2015 07:15 UTC)
Re: Weakness of "non-object" types taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (05 Dec 2015 12:50 UTC)
Re: Weakness of "non-object" types John Cowan (06 Dec 2015 04:41 UTC)
Re: Weakness of "non-object" types taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (06 Dec 2015 10:21 UTC)

Re: Weakness of "non-object" types John Cowan 05 Dec 2015 07:15 UTC

Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer scripsit:

> (As far as I know, eq? is ill-defined on characters as well as numbers
> because characters too sometimes end up being non-immediate.  Anyway,
> whether characters fall in the same category doesn't matter much.)

That's why I didn't bring them up in my previous message.

> Thing is, we have no proof that the programmer doesn't care about a
> certain number anymore (or character, symbol, ...).

Again, what's the point of non-strong hashtables except to allow the
reclamation of storage?  You haven't addressed this question.

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