Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI)

[felix winkelmann]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 3:59 PM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit:
>
>
>  > So do we make the bold move of not defining (token? x)?
>
>  No, we realize that just as we need only one empty list (unlike Java, where
>  any list can have zero elements without losing its identity), we need only
>  one object that has:
>
>         a unique identity, disjoint from all other objects
>         a unique type, disjoint from all other types
>         no information inside it
>

Why do we need this? I can't remember right now...


cheers,
felix