[Chicken-janitors] Re: #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            
Resolution:                  |    Keywords:  equal? procedures
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Comment(by felix):

 Replying to [comment:1 alaric]:

 > One underlying issue is: Who compares procedures, anyway? What are their
 intentions and wishes?

 When comparing records, some slots may contain procedures. Another case is
 hash-table keys - here procedures may appear contained in non-atomic data
 compared by `equal?`.

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/441#comment:2>
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