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Re: (eq? sym1 sym2) implementation

From: Steve Yegge <steve dot yegge at gmail dot com>
To: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
Cc: Jim White <jim at pagesmiths dot com>, S D <s dot mailinglists at gmail dot com>, kawa at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:05:46 -0800
Subject: Re: (eq? sym1 sym2) implementation
References: <301e20f605031911516de2586d@mail.gmail.com> <423CB0EA.9080503@pagesmiths.com> <423CB2F8.30501@bothner.com>
Reply-to: Steve Yegge <steve dot yegge at gmail dot com>

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:17:12 -0800, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:
> Jim White wrote:
> > I think it poor style to depend on this aspect of Kawa's implementation
> > (that symbols are j.l.String) and beware that it may break in the
> > future.
> 
> People do seem to be in favor of changing the implementation of Scheme
> symbols to use gnu.mapping.Symbol.  When I get the time I plan to try
> this change and see how it works.  To avoid breaking too many programs,
> we'd probably make it so String and Symbol can be automatically be
> convetered to each other.  That pre-supposes a change to the Kawa
> type system to support language-specific type coercions - which we'll
> also use for number, e.g. coercing Integer to Scheme <integer>.
> --
>         --Per Bothner
> per@bothner.com   http://per.bothner.com/

Very cool!  We're all looking forward to it. :-)

-steve

References:
- (eq? sym1 sym2) implementation
  - From: S D
- Re: (eq? sym1 sym2) implementation
  - From: Jim White
- Re: (eq? sym1 sym2) implementation
  - From: Per Bothner

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