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

[Vladimir Sedach]

Thanks for catching that. I fixed it (and also made '%' deprecated in
favor of 'REM').

Vladimir

2010/4/20 Daniel Gackle <danielgackle at gmail.com>:
> 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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