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Steven L Baur writes:
 > As near as I can tell all eq checks between integers and characters
 > lose.  There is nothing dubious about it.

The ebola code assumes the only reason you would ever call eq on
two objects that happen to be an integer and a character is
because you think characters are still represented as their 8-bit
integer character codes.

"Dubious" because this assumption is sometimes wrong.

