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   Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jun-2025 21:29:49 JST Janneke

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   • Daphne Preston-Kendal

   @dpk possibly, what would the semantics be or in what way would they differ from eq?

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     Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jun-2025 21:29:50 JST Daphne Preston-Kendal

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     There’s also a question around whether ephemerons and ephemeron tables should even allow keys that don’t have their own location (which is where the difference between ‘eq?’ and ‘eqv?’ matters). Those ephemerons/associations would never get broken …

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     Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jun-2025 21:29:51 JST Daphne Preston-Kendal

     Schemers: Do you think there is a use for weak (ephemeron) hash tables where the comparison function is something other than ‘eq?’ (or ‘eqv?’) ?