Re: [RFC PATCH] Per-window face support

[Daniel Colascione]

>>>>>> > I still wonder why we only allow EQ there, it sounds unnecessarily
>>>>>> > restrictive.
>>> Agree.  A recent discussion indeed pointed out that EQ is fundamentally
>>> flawed and there can be good reasons to try and give up on EQ and use
>>> `equal` instead.
>> Huh? EQ is the simplest, least flawed primitive one can imagine. It's
>> simple object identity comparison.
>
> In the context of bignums and floats it's pretty thorougly flawed.
> [ I said we should use `equal` instead but that was a mistake: I meant
> `eql`.  ]

I think that ship sailed a long time ago. Almost everyone uses eq for
integers, so we should, I think, intern bignums so that things keep
working.

Floats typically aren't equality-compared anyway.