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Re: [Chicken-hackers] patch: treat #t as alternative to else in cond


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] patch: treat #t as alternative to else in cond
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:35:47 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

Peter Bex scripsit:

> > That may happen at some stage, but (equal? (quote foo) 'foo) => #t,
> > so it is not true in the reader (and would be non-conformant if it were).
> 
> I'd argue that's really a bug or an oversight in the spec.

Eh, well, no Scheme I can test does it that way.  Feel free to argue
your case to the R8RS committee.  :-)

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