[Chicken-janitors] #441: equal? may not recurse into closures

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#441: equal? may not recurse into closures
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 Reporter:  felix              |       Owner:       
     Type:  change request     |      Status:  new  
 Priority:  major              |   Milestone:  4.7.0
Component:  core libraries     |     Version:  4.6.x
 Keywords:  equal? procedures  |  
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 Because it is impossible to avoid circular data when comparing closures
 and since equality of procedures is a difficult issue in general, the
 implementation of `equal?` should be changed to not descend recursively
 into procedures and comparing them with `eq?` instead.

 This is a change-request, because such a change in the semantics of
 `equal?` may break existing code.

 The discussion period will end on 2010-12-21.

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/441>
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