[parenscript-devel] % is broken (was: Equality issues)

[Daniel Gackle]

I see the null fix, and the other equality stuff looks right so far, but I
can't give a complete answer about that yet; our code won't run because the
% operator is broken.

(ps (% a b)) => "percent(a, b);"

Daniel


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Vladimir Sedach <vsedach at gmail.com> wrote:

> You're right, that absolutely makes sense. I've pushed a fix.
>
> It's interesting to note that this is the only place in the code
> Parenscript generates where the semantics of '==' (as opposed to
> '===') make sense.
>
> Vladimir
>
> 2010/4/19 Daniel Gackle <danielgackle at gmail.com>:
> > The array literals fix worked, thanks. Next up: the changes around
> equality
> > are a problem.
> > Specifically, the NULL operator, which used to evaluate to true on both
> null
> > and undefined, now applies strict equality, meaning that (null undefined)
> is
> > false. Since we use the NULL operator in a great many places precisely to
> > check whether something is null or undefined, this change breaks our
> code.
> > In general, I've found it to be good to conflate null and undefined in
> most
> > of our PS code; it simplifies things and works fine. So I guess we have
> to
> > go on record as protesting this change... especially since there already
> > existed ways to distinguish null from undefined in the minority case when
> > it's needed.
> > Others' thoughts?
> > Dan
> > p.s. I haven't looked closely at the other implications of the equality
> > changes, because the NULL issue is such a big one that I thought I'd
> start
> > there.
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