[racket-dev] 'case' using equal?

I think we should change 'case'.

I think we should also add a clear note to the documentation for case
saying "this is not the same as 'case' in Scheme because it uses equal?,
not eqv?" and giving a few examples to show the difference to head off any
confusion.

Robby

On Monday, November 26, 2012, Jon Zeppieri wrote:

> The 'case-check' branch of my github fork now implements Robby's
> suggestion. [https://github.com/97jaz/racket/tree/case-check]
>
> I ran the full build (including documentation), ran
> collects/tests/run-automated-tests.rkt, and started up and played
> around with DrRacket. The only logged messages were from the tests I
> added, which specifically test the new behavior.
>
> -Jon
>
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Jon Zeppieri <zeppieri at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > Thanks! -J
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Jon Zeppieri <zeppieri at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to give check-em a type for TR without breaking it for
> >>> non-typed code?
> >>
> >> Yes, you should add an entry to typed-racket/base-env/base-special-env
> >> for `check-em`.  Note that you'll have to specify which module
> >> `check-em` is defined in.
> >>
> >> --
> >> sam th
> >> samth at ccs.neu.edu <javascript:;>
>
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