Unlike eq? on symbols, eq?’s behavior on quoted lists is unspecified, so I do not think there is a significantly deeper reason than “that isn’t what the current implementation chooses to do.” Whether the answer is #t or #f could change tomorrow, on a different VM, on a different architecture, or on Friday the 13th.
Is there a reason you would like the answer to be #t? > On Oct 25, 2019, at 09:34, wanderley.guimar...@gmail.com wrote: > > Why (eq? (quote a) (quote a)) is #t but (eq? (quote (a)) (quote (a))) > is #f? I would expect that if (quote (a)) was a mutable pair but it > is not since (quote (a)) returns #f. It seems that guile returns #t > as I was expecting. -- 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 racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/93BC7A92-F63C-4273-AB56-C001372DE93E%40gmail.com.