Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Remove comparator type specializations for zero and one arguments

[Michele La Monaca]

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 12:18:09PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>> There's some argument for (apply = list) to do the right thing if
>> list is length 0 or 1.
>
> Good point.
>
>> Here's a quick investigation report.  Of my suite of 46 Schemes,
>> MIT, Gambit, Chicken, Guile, SCM, KSi, Sizzle all accept (=) and (= 1)
>> and return #t.  In addition, STklos, Chez, Vicare, Ypsilon, IronScheme,
>> JScheme, STklos, XLisp, Elk, Llava, SXM return #t to (= 1), and
>> FemtoLisp returns #f.
>
> Given that it's so widespread to accept this, perhaps the better
> fix is to make sure that CHICKEN 5 supports it once more.

I think that = is in the same league of < and > so, yes, it should
return #t if only for coherence.

Regards,
Michele