[R6RS] `eqv?' on immutable records

Anton van Straaten anton at appsolutions.com
Sun May 13 18:03:50 EDT 2007


Michael Sperber wrote:
>>E.g. what would the impact on the formal semantics be?
> 
> 
> Well, location tags are needed for mutable objects anyway.  I'm not sure
> if it's grown the "immutable" flag I asked for a long time ago, but I'll
> check tomorrow.  In either case, it shouldn't be a problem.

OK.  Another devil's advocate concern is backwards compatibility.  Is 
the idea to allow location tagging of immutable values, but not require it?



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