Re: Thoughts on getting correct line numbers in the byte compiler's warning messages

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Maybe the "big cons-cells" approach is not that bad after all, since it
>> doesn't try to introduce new objects which are "equal but not": it just
>> introduces a subtype of cons-cells and that's that, so it's semantically
>> much simpler/cleaner.
>
> I'm not sure about that.  We'd still have to modify EQ to cope with the
> new structure no matter how we do it.

No need to modify EQ for the big-cons cells: a big-cons-cell would be
a normal cons-cell just with more fields added at its end.  It's not
a "location + pointer to the real object" like we need to do for
symbols, so EQ will do the expected thing on it.


        Stefan