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 8.  Suppose you have two lists of integers, `left` and `right`. You want to determine whether those lists are equal, that is, whether they have all the same members in the same order. How would you implement such a list comparison? You can write it in Scheme or Kapulet using `letrec`, or if you want more of a challenge, in the Lambda Calculus using your preferred encoding for lists. If you write it in Scheme, don't rely on applying the built-in comparison operator `equal?` to the lists themselves. (Nor on the operator `eqv?`, which might not do what you expect.) You can however rely on the comparison operator `=` which accepts only number arguments. If you write it in the Lambda Calculus, you can use your implementation of `leq`, requested below, to write an equality operator for Church-encoded numbers. [[Here is a hint|assignment3 hint3]], if you need it.
 
+    (The function you're trying to define here is like `eqlist?` in Chapter 5 of *The Little Schemer*, though you are only concerned with lists of numbers, whereas the function from *The Little Schemer* also works on lists containing symbolic atoms --- and in the final version from that Chapter, also on lists that contain other, embedded lists.)
 
 
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