GOOPS: object-equal?

[Marko Rauhamaa]

(guile-1.6.0.tar.gz)

The GOOPS documentation states that one should use object-eqv? and
object-equal? instead of eqv? and equal?. Furthermore, goops.scm makes
it look like the object-eq... methods get called from the guile core:

========================================================================
;;;
;;; {Standard methods used by the C runtime}
;;;

;;; Methods to compare objects
;;;

(define-method (object-eqv? x y)    #f)
(define-method (object-equal? x y)  (eqv? x y))
========================================================================

However, I have found no guile code calling these methods, and my call
to "member" definitely does not get routed to object-equal?.

Is this a bug or a feature? Should I not be able to override equal? for
my classes? Should there be separate series of generic functions for
lists, alists, hash tables and alike?


Marko

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