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| -rw-r--r-- | racket.html.markdown | 48 | 
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| diff --git a/racket.html.markdown b/racket.html.markdown index 6abc8759..e345db8b 100644 --- a/racket.html.markdown +++ b/racket.html.markdown @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ contributors:    - ["Eli Barzilay", "https://github.com/elibarzilay"]    - ["Gustavo Schmidt", "https://github.com/gustavoschmidt"]    - ["Duong H. Nguyen", "https://github.com/cmpitg"] +  - ["Keyan Zhang", "https://github.com/keyanzhang"]  ---  Racket is a general purpose, multi-paradigm programming language in the Lisp/Scheme family. @@ -282,16 +283,49 @@ m ; => '#hash((b . 2) (a . 1) (c . 3))  <-- no `d'  ;; for numbers use `='  (= 3 3.0) ; => #t -(= 2 1) ; => #f +(= 2 1)   ; => #f + +;; `eq?' returns #t if 2 arguments refer to the same object (in memory),  +;; #f otherwise. +;; In other words, it's a simple pointer comparison. +(eq? '() '()) ; => #t, since there exists only one empty list in memory +(let ([x '()] [y '()]) +  (eq? x y))  ; => #t, same as above -;; for object identity use `eq?' -(eq? 3 3) ; => #t -(eq? 3 3.0) ; => #f  (eq? (list 3) (list 3)) ; => #f +(let ([x (list 3)] [y (list 3)]) +  (eq? x y))            ; => #f — not the same list in memory! + +(let* ([x (list 3)] [y x]) +  (eq? x y)) ; => #t, since x and y now point to the same stuff + +(eq? 'yes 'yes) ; => #t +(eq? 'yes 'no)  ; => #f + +(eq? 3 3)   ; => #t — be careful here +            ; It’s better to use `=' for number comparisons. +(eq? 3 3.0) ; => #f + +(eq? (expt 2 100) (expt 2 100))               ; => #f +(eq? (integer->char 955) (integer->char 955)) ; => #f + +(eq? (string-append "foo" "bar") (string-append "foo" "bar")) ; => #f + +;; `eqv?' supports the comparison of number and character datatypes. +;; for other datatypes, `eqv?' and `eq?' return the same result. +(eqv? 3 3.0)                                   ; => #f +(eqv? (expt 2 100) (expt 2 100))               ; => #t +(eqv? (integer->char 955) (integer->char 955)) ; => #t + +(eqv? (string-append "foo" "bar") (string-append "foo" "bar"))   ; => #f -;; for collections use `equal?' -(equal? (list 'a 'b) (list 'a 'b)) ; => #t -(equal? (list 'a 'b) (list 'b 'a)) ; => #f +;; `equal?' supports the comparison of the following datatypes: +;; strings, byte strings, pairs, mutable pairs, vectors, boxes,  +;; hash tables, and inspectable structures. +;; for other datatypes, `equal?' and `eqv?' return the same result. +(equal? 3 3.0)                                                   ; => #f +(equal? (string-append "foo" "bar") (string-append "foo" "bar")) ; => #t +(equal? (list 3) (list 3))                                       ; => #t  ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;  ;; 5. Control Flow | 
