Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [Axiom-commit] SF.net SVN: axiom: [345] branches/wh-sandbox

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes:

| Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| 
| > OK, I have not gotten that message yet.  But, the parts
| > 
| >              ((NULL (MEMBER |kind| '("o" "k" "c" "d" "p"))) NIL)
| > 
| > versus
| > 
| >              ((NULL (MEMBER |k1| (LIST '|o| '|k| '|c| '|d| '|p|))) NIL)
| > 
| > are still not explained to me.
| > 
| > | 'member' user 'EQUAL' on strings.  'MEMBER' uses 'EQ', which does not
| > | give expected effect for strings.
| > 
| 
| Boot translation is:
| 
|              ((NULL (|member| |kind| '("o" "k" "c" "d" "p"))) NIL)

OK, thanks.  I would prefer we bring |member| back using the
"quotation" notation -- yes, I really need to write that primer to new
Boot -- and retain the list literal.

Thanks!

-- Gaby