[racket-dev] =?

From: Shriram Krishnamurthi (sk at cs.brown.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 6 14:24:22 EDT 2010

It would be the same as =, ie, numeric equality.  It's not meant to be
some sort of generalized equality checker.  It's just that we teach
our students that predicates end in ?, and that's true of symbol=?,
string=?, but not =.

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Everett Morse <webj2 at unoc.net> wrote:
> Would this mean "equal?", "eq?", "=", or what?  I suppose it would make
> sense to be "=?" since the others have a question mark, but I'd almost
> prefer it to be "equal?" just to save me some typing. (In fact, maybe I'll
> bind it to that myself ...).  I imagine that this kind of confusion is, or
> is related to, the reason.
>
> -Everett
>
> On 09/06/2010 11:31 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
>>
>> Is there a reason =? isn't bound?  I see (in Guillaume's logs)
>> students actually getting errors because they tried to use it.
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