Hello all. I have a historical question about quoted constants. Does anyone 
know why '1 = 1? My intuition is that this is an artifact of conflating quote 
with list constructors. Is that indeed the case?

> (equal? '('1 '2) '(1 2))
#f
> (equal? (list '1 '2) (list 1 2))
#t

Thanks,
-Ian
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