| From: Joe Marshall (jmarshall at alum.mit.edu) Date: Wed Jan 26 17:17:17 EST 2011 |
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:02 AM, J. Ian Johnson <ianj at ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > Hello all. I have a historical question about quoted constants. Does anyone know why '1 = 1? My intuition is that this is an artifact of conflating quote with list constructors. Is that indeed the case? I doubt it. More likely it was when someone realized that if (quote 1) is not the number 1, then everyone would be confused. What else would it be? -- ~jrm
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