Re: hash-consing bignums and eq==eql

[Paul Eggert]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Common Lisp and Scheme have a very different user-base
> and goals.  These are languages whose target users are real programmers,
> and where its considered normal to let a program core-dump

Not sure I agree with this, as it's a pretty big world out there. In my corner 
of the world, almost all the Scheme users I deal with are students, they're not 
big fans of core dumps, and the Scheme they use (Racket, typically) is even less 
likely to dump core than Elisp is. Although other corners of the Scheme world 
are like what you describe, that's more the R5RS tradition, as R6RS moved 
decisively in the "let's not let programs dump core" direction.