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From: plogan@dad.mentor.COM (Patrick Logan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: EQUAL? vs. EQ? (was: Functions and call/cc in Scheme)
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Date: 27 Aug 90 16:53:33 GMT
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I just received my own mail to this group and decided to qualify what I wrote.

I wrote:
    (define (bar x) (cons x 1))
    It is a function.

In [most?] Schemes this is a true function using EQUAL? but not EQ? because it
returns a unique cons with each call.