Re: Using empty_string as the only "" string

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 4/24/07, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:

> If so, it's because you misunderstand lisp.

Oh, I'm not a big expert in Lisp, but I don't think I'm
misunderstanding anything.

> There's absolutely nothing wrong with canonicalizing immutable objects
> in lisp (and many implementations in fact do so).

No doubt. But I would consider broken an implementation which
canonicalized 0.0 and not 1.0, for example.

            Juanma