Re: sqlite3

[Richard Stallman]

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  > We don't preserve EQ-ness of objects, but it's still nice to be able to
  > store a list where the same object appears a number of time (and get out
  > a list from the storage where that's still true).

Would you please show an example to illustrate what precisely this
would mean, and why it would be advantageous?

When we want to preserve EQ-ness, we can do that by binding
print-circle to t when converting the Lisp data to text.  When we're
not preserving EQ-ness, when and how does it make a difference in ((a
. b) (a . b)) whether the two elements are EQ?

What I don't see is how some sort of partial preservation of EQ-ness
would be important when we do NOT need full preservation of it.


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