In my early time learning Racket, I wish someone had given me the following advice:
""" For now? Just use `equal?`. `equal?` will usually do the right thing, including for numbers, strings, symbols, immutable lists, and so on. A type-specific function like `=` or `string-=?` might be a bit faster. `eq?` might be a lot faster. But `equal?` will still be correct. `eq?` or `eqv?` might matter semantically if you're doing certain things -- but you're not likely to be doing them in your early days with Racket. So if you're getting side-tracked and confused, you can probably set it aside for now, and just use `equal?` """ That advice might make some of you cringe as simplistic, but it would have been a helpful simplification for me. And I'm talking about modern Racket, not Schemes generally. Of course there are also things like `egal?` that are fun to learn about, eventually. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
