Re: [Chicken-users] char=? question

[felix winkelmann]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:58 PM, William Ramsay <address@hidden> wrote:
> A quick question.    I may be going going insane.
>
> I have the following code:
>
>     (define foo
>        (lambda (v)
>           (let
>              ((wa (vector-ref v W1))
>               (wb (vector-ref v W2)))
>
>           (if  (> wb 0)
>               (if  (char=? wa #\R)
>                   (bar1  wa wb)
>                   (bar2 wa wb))))))
>

Chicken here makes something dirty: it replaces char=? with eq?. I assume
you are actually storing numbers (otherwise ">" should fail)?

That replacement is questionable, of course. But your code seems to
mix up argument types.


cheers,
felix