[racket-dev] racket2 suggestion: removing (or extending) eqv?

I'm curious: why do you want all characters to be eq? to each other instead
of just equal??

Robby


On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Jon Zeppieri <zeppieri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since incompatible future changes seem to be coming up a lot, I
> thought I'd add one more. What do the members of this list think of
> removing eqv? all of its associated machinery (e.g., memv, hasheqv,
> etc.)?
>
> (Along with this change, it would be nice if characters could all be
> immediately represented, so that those with equal code points would be
> eq? RIght now, all unicode code points can be encoded in 22 bits, I
> think. I'm not so familiar with racket's current representation of
> characters, but I figure that they could easily be fit into a single
> machine word on 64-bit builds. I don't know how difficult it would be
> on 32-bit builds. And, of course, there's no guarantee that the number
> of code points won't increase significantly.)
>
> Alternatively (and following Sam's line of thought from [1]), eqv?
> could be extended to cover all of racket's immutable data structures.
> In this case eqv? should also be made generic so that user-defined
> immutable data structures can use it, as well.
>
>
> [1] http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2013-April/057510.html
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