Re: display property strangeness

[Stefan Monnier]

> As someone who doesn't have a background in Lisp, I would expect executing
> the same statement three times to give the same result as executing three
> identical statements.  Perhaps its a bit like quantum mechanics, in that,
> once you've passed the stage of disbelief, you can no longer see what the
> problem is.

`eq' is equivalent to C's `==' and `equal' is equivalent (for strings) to
`strcmp'.  So try:

      #include <stdio.h> 
      main ()
      {
          int test = "a" == "a";
          printf ("A is equal to A? %d\n", test);
      }


-- Stefan