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Type Specifier EQL

Compound Type Specifier Kind:

Combining.

Compound Type Specifier Syntax:

eql object

Compound Type Specifier Arguments:

object---an object.

Compound Type Specifier Description:

Represents the type of all x for which (eql object x) is true.

The argument object is required. The object can be *, but if so it denotes itself (the symbol *) and does not represent an unspecified value. The symbol eql is not valid as an atomic type specifier.


The following X3J13 cleanup issue, not part of the specification, applies to this section:


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