Great paper btw!
On Dec 12, 2012 12:42 AM, "Phil Hagelberg" <p...@hagelb.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Raoul Duke <rao...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > one of the things which seem to be true but nowhere completely
> > successfully fleshed out is the fact that "equality" is very
> > subjective. there can and should be many different ways to pose and
> > answer the question "a == b".
>
> There is a very good explanation of an objective equality predicate in
> Henry Baker's "Equal Rights for Functional Objects" paper:
> http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/ObjectIdentity.html
>
> Anyone interested in equality, FP, or why CL and Elisp are so annoying
> to work with should read this paper. Keep in mind that Clojure cheats
> in a few places in the name of convenience and doesn't quite implement
> what he's described though.
>
> -Phil
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