I think the struct implementing `parameteric->/c` could implement
`prop:equal+hash` appropriately. That wouldn't allow them to compare
equal to the unwrapped value, but it would make this program work.

Sam

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Phil Nguyen <philnguyen0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the following program, `(p? 1 1)` returns `#t` or `#f` depending on `p?` 
> being called from the same or different module:
>
> #lang racket
>
> (module m racket
>   (provide
>     (contract-out
>       [p? (parametric->/c (a) (a a . -> . boolean?))]))
>   (define p? equal?)
>   (p? 1 1))
>
> (require 'm)
> (p? 1 1)
>
> Module `m` is wrong in the first place for comparing 2 sealed objects, but 
> here we don't get an error. Is it practical to make `equal?` aware of 
> parametric contracts?
>
> This bit me in practice when I used a hashtable (which had an implicit 
> `equal?`). The worse part was that tests passed because they were in the same 
> module, and I only got unexpected behavior from outside.
>
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