[plt-scheme] Naming an equality operator

From: Joe Marshall (jmarshall at alum.mit.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 17 21:12:40 EST 2006

The CLU language had two equality predicates:  `same' and `similar'
`same' essentially meant EQ?

How about SIMILAR?


On 2/17/06, Geoffrey Knauth <geoff at knauth.org> wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2006, at 19:18, Carl Eastlund wrote:
> > One personal coding project I have been working on is an extensible
> > equality operator (think equal?, but you can override its behavior on
> > certain types of values it will encounter along its traversal).
> > Before I do anything rash like use it in distributed code, or
> > distribute it as a planet package, I'd like to have a good name for
> > the operator.
>
> How about:  equal?!
>
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