[racket-dev] =?

From: David Van Horn (dvanhorn at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 6 14:33:15 EDT 2010

On 10/6/10 2:24 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
> 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 =.

So shouldn't it be `number=?'?  I hear students say this in class every 
year.  `=?' seems just as much an anomaly as `='.

David


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