[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 285: Adding a bool type

[Erik Max Francis]

Andrew Koenig wrote:

> I would be very surprised if none of the Lisp family of languages
> has similar anomalies in the relationship between eq and equal.

Well, in Scheme it's left unspecified whether #f (the canonical false
value) is identical to () (the empty list).

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