Re: SRFI-9 and `equal?'

[Kevin Ryde]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
> According to R5RS, if the two `chbouib' instances print equally, they
> should be `equal?'.

I don't think that's meant to be taken literally, I'm pretty sure what
it's only trying to say is that `equal?' recurses into containers like
lists and vectors.

> To me, it looks like having `equal?' behave "as one may expect" (i.e.,
> as in the Chicken case) would be very valuable and look more consistent
> wrt. R5RS --- although, admittedly, relying on it would be Bad.

Yep, I think it'd be good to look into the fields of two records of
the same type.