Re: Warn about comparing quoted lists (etc) using `eq`

[Ihor Radchenko]

Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com> writes:

> While this sounds like a useful suggestion on the surface, it's actually 
> slightly dangerous: blindly replacing `eq` with `equal` (and `memq` with 
> `member`, and so on) may very well break working code (that silently relied 
> on the condition not being true). It's also a poor remedy against pratfalls 
> like
>
>   (memq x '(one 'two 'three))
>
> which do occur. What we really want is to make a human look at the code, and 
> think.

Then, there should also be a way to tell the compiler not to throw the
warning in specific, checked, places in the code.

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