Re: Do symbols need to be EQ?

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Kenneth Tilton ken@tiltontec.com wrote:

EQ, as you adroitly demonstrated, worries about all sorts of things, including a symbol's package.

Which is part of what has me confused. Up until now I would have said that the "problem" of EQ is that it doesn't worry about _enough_ things. (EQ 3/4 3/4) is NIL because EQ doesn't bother to look "into" the numbers (as EQL does) but just superficially checks their "pointer identity". And for symbols that's not the case? Hmmm...