Scheme language standardization process
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/24/2012 07:08 AM, John Cowan wrote: > Indeed. (let ((a x) (b x)) (eq? a b)) is always true, except where x is > a character or number. It's not clear to me that, in a unicode universe, there's a useful distinction between characters and strings of length 1. At the very least, character operations such as case and other such mappings are not closed on the set of single codepoints, which makes treating "character" separately from "string" semantically dubious. Bear -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPHuHLAAoJEAOzWkqOibfN3KEH/00sET1CFmZgY/42MjpSi/Cs 6PaplaG7oeNsHx5IXZjJ+MyL+3+bJw+Za96+09RaY3u5+sScF/+UX8L416HmsvbC F3Q6HiYUZSTc/79oabcZGBrOuluhL4ZjeeDwf2mdPPM6clkPGaG3u9luYs5CqCcf LQFKh0aJSEhSbrEQ9zReB76dhIZg+xnpNxsb7lwBXPLXIfKG2YtKHFYl3SizVSs+ NiVi4w2cbOZsLaJB6XWZApAKTQdFdyvwHdyDPTGd/6Bg5rYETbW6UH+4Rdi+YEQ/ bM/7vr3zkkwHYAO2aqbHKO6QgWmKrvY/22kpsXv7nFQ61BRfzvfK3hwxNntHT90= =LwTJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list Scheme-reports@x http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports