eq and hashing (was Re: [plt-scheme] How to make unit functors?)

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Thu May 29 16:24:18 EDT 2003

At Thu, 29 May 2003 16:19:56 -0400, John Clements wrote:
> Out of curiosity, then: if MzScheme left the symbols in the table,
> wouldn't the subsequent run of the program simply attach to the
> existing symbols?

Yes, if it used the same symbols. But the program might intern any
number of unique symbols by calling `read', `string->symbol', etc.

Matthew



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