Quoth Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|>> > Whether the '==' operation conforms to your idea of what equality
|>> > means is unclear.
|>> Care to say what it does mean, then?
|> I'd say a==b doesn't necessarily mean a and b have the same value.
|
| Care to say what it does mean (as opposed to what it doesn't mean), then?
I'm happy to say "==" means "the same" when applied to values, but one
could reasonably object that "the same" ought to account for all properties
of a value, and not just equality. The issue doesn't seem to come up when
writing programs, though, in my experience.
Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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