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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