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Re: Serious eq? bug?


Harvey J. Stein writes:
>  > You need to compare strings.  You will have to use equal? or string=?,
>  > because eq? is not usable with strings.  Afait, -a and -b aren't
>  > portable identifiers either.  See the report.
> 
> That's annoying because case uses eq?.

This is Lisp, however, the language where syntax and functions
converge. You can build an alternative to case that used equal?
or string=?, and Did The Right Thing.

Perry