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Re: sqlite3


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: sqlite3
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 08:42:20 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> When we want to preserve EQ-ness, we can do that by binding
> print-circle to t when converting the Lisp data to text.  When we're
> not preserving EQ-ness, when and how does it make a difference in ((a
> . b) (a . b)) whether the two elements are EQ?

If you're printing a structure, it's nice to have a promise that the
structure you get back has the same structure.  (Even if the structure
itself isn't EQ to the one you printed.)

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