er i mean http://tinyurl.com/59l5e5

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Raoul Duke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://tinyurl.com/5okr87
>
> "Our model for object identity is similar to Scheme's concept of
> "operational identity" [Rees86], in which objects which behave the
> same should be the same. However, since "behave the same" is
> undecidable for functions and function-closures, we back down from
> "operational identity" to "operational identity of data structure
> representations". Operational identity for data structures is much
> easier than operational identity for function-closures, because there
> are only a few well-defined operations on data structures, but
> function-closures can do anything. We define a single, computable,
> primitive equality predicate called EGAL which we show is consistent
> with the notion of "operational identity of data structures". Egal is
> the obsolete Norman term for equal, and Égalité is the French word for
> social equality. "During the seventeenth century two parallel vertical
> lines were frequently used [to denote equality], especially in France,
> instead of =" [Young11]; we will later find that || is a remarkably
> satisfying infix symbol for egal."
>

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