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From: john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Why does (eq? car car) ==> () in MacScheme?
Message-ID: <1440@uw-nsr.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 88 08:04:19 GMT
Reply-To: john@nsr.bioeng.washington.edu (John Sambrook 548-4386)
Organization: UW-Bioengineering, Seattle, WA
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First, regarding the future of Scheme, I'd like to note that one of my
friends here at the University of Washington will be teaching a small
class of mechanical engineers (something) about software engineering.
He will be using Scheme, and not Fortran, which I guess was quite a
coup on his part.

At any rate, he and I were talking, and he commented that he had 
discovered (though it is documented in the manual) that, in MacScheme
it is the case that (eq? car car) ==> ().  I was suprised by this.
Could someone please explain what's going on here?  

Thanks,

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John Sambrook                        Internet: john@nsr.bioeng.washington.edu
University of Washington RC-05           UUCP: uw-nsr!john
Seattle, Washington  98195               Dial: (206) 548-4386