On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:02 AM, J. Ian Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all. I have a historical question about quoted constants. Does anyone > know why '1 = 1? My intuition is that this is an artifact of conflating quote > with list constructors. Is that indeed the case?
I doubt it. More likely it was when someone realized that if (quote 1) is not the number 1, then everyone would be confused. What else would it be? -- ~jrm _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
