This seems to be consistent with my Web browser and editor. Are the symbols eq? or equal?
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 3:54 PM, 'John Clements' via Racket Users <[email protected]> wrote: > I was working with files containing a Byte Order Mark today, and in the > process of writing a test case, I discovered that > > (string->symbol “\uFEFF”) > > produces a symbol whose printed representation is > > ‘hello > > … which seems unfortunate; I guess I would have expected something like > > ‘|\uFEFFhello| > > (… although I see now that this kind of escaping is not currently enabled > inside vertical bars). > > This leads to situations where two symbols with the same printed > representation may not be equal?, which seems unfortunate. > > Am I overlooking a good reason why this is the desired behavior? > > John > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -=[ Jay McCarthy http://jeapostrophe.github.io ]=- -=[ Associate Professor PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell ]=- -=[ Moses 1:33: And worlds without number have I created; ]=- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
