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From: <tomas <at> tuxteam.de>
To: Atticus <atticus0 <at> posteo.org>
Cc: 21855 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21855: eq?
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 11:23:23 +0100

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On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 01:58:48PM +0100, Atticus wrote:
> So I wanted to try out gnu guix and thus make myself more familiar with
> guile first. While running some tests I encountered a problem/bug with eq?:
> 
> $ guile -v
> guile (GNU Guile) 2.1.1
> 
> $ guile
> scheme@(guile-user)>
> (define (multirember a lat)
>   (cond
>    ((null? lat) '())
>    ((eq? (car lat) a) (multirember a (cdr lat)))
>    (else (cons (car lat) (multirember a (cdr lat))))))
>    
> scheme@(guile-user)> (multirember '(a b) '(x y (a b) z (a b)))
> $1 = (x y z)
> 
> So why does guile return (x y z)? I expected (x y (a b) z (a b)). I know
> eq? should only be used with symbols (and thus this example is more
> theoretical) but nevertheless the return value is not right, since (eq?
> '(a b) '(a b)) returns #f (Btw same in guile 2.0.11).

Hm. As far as I know (eq? '(a b) '(a b)) is not *guaranteed* to evaluate
to #f. The implementation might be free to re-use things it "knows" to be
constant (I might be wrong, though).

Regards
- -- t
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