[R6RS] `eqv?' on immutable records

Michael Sperber sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Fri May 11 11:05:25 EDT 2007


William D Clinger <will at ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> It was a mistake to tag immutable pairs, vectors, strings,
> and especially procedures with a location.  I have always
> argued against the location-tagging of procedures, and was
> quite galled when the rabble used the denotational semantics
> that I had written, at a time before the introduction of
> immutable pairs, vectors, and strings, to argue that both
> immutable and mutable structures should be location-tagged.

I agree with you.  Is anyone here against fixing this, at least for
pairs, vectors, and strings?

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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