From: Shriram Krishnamurthi (sk at cs.brown.edu) Date: Sun Oct 5 14:51:18 EDT 2008 |
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> Heuristically, I think of eq? as being similar to > comparing pointers in C and equal? as a test that might involve library call > that could run in time proportional to the size of the objects (e.g., > strcmp). That's a good way to think about the difference. Or you can think of them as object equality versus structural equality. > What is the intuition behind eqv? Beats me. I've never used EQV? in my life. Shriram
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