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24 General Utility Functions

This chapter contains information about procedures which are not cleanly tied to a specific data type. Because of their wide range of applications, they are collected in a utility chapter.

• Equality: When are two values `the same'?
• Object Properties: A modern interface to object properties.
• Sorting: Sort utility procedures.
• Copying: Copying deep structures.
• General Conversion: Converting objects to strings.
• Hooks: User-customizable event lists.