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Immediate­Strings­Coalesced

cowan
2013-05-24 13:06:51
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Are immediate strings coalesced?

Asked to evaluate (let ((a "hello") (b "hello") (eq? a b)), Racket, Gauche, MIT, Gambit, Chicken, Bigloo, SISC, Chibi, Chez, SCM, Ikarus/Vicare, Mosh, KSi, SigScheme, TinyScheme, Scheme 9, Dream, S7, BDC, XLisp, Rep, Schemik, Elk, UMB, Oaklisp, and Owl Lisp all return #f.

Scheme48/scsh, Guile, Kawa, Larceny, Ypsilon, IronScheme, NexJ, STklos, Shoe, RScheme, JScheme, VX return #t.

There may be some false negatives here, because an implementation might coalesce literals in the compiler but not at the REPL.