On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 03:14:33AM -0700, Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Oren Tirosh wrote: > > > It appears that what you are proposing is what interned string > > > comparison already does (since == checks for pointer equality first). > > > > But INequality checking may still require strcmp. Inverse logic again. > > I never claimed it wouldn't. All i'm saying is that string comparison > already does this: compare pointers, then if not equal, compare strings. > > > > So, the only observable effect of the change would be to break all > > > code that tests for type(s) == str. > > > > Yes, that's certainly a problem. > > But you haven't responded to my point. Would there be *any* effect > other than breakage? The warm fuzzy feeling that you have a real symbol type :-) Just for the record: I am not a LISP zealot. Oren
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