Re: equal tag method [was Re: unicode and locale again]

["Alex Bilyk" <nebula-crl-2688@...>]

You wouldn't be asking for 3 examples where one would want '==' to carry the
semantics of logical equality (e.g. bitwise) for two objects instead of the
semantics of being 'equal by identity' (e.g. address in memory), would you?

AB

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roberto Ierusalimschy" <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 6:35 AM
Subject: Re: equal tag method [was Re: unicode and locale again]


> > Would it really be too difficult to add === ? Or something similar?
>
> It is not difficult at all. We just don't see such a need for it. If you
> can list three concrete examples where you really need a raw equal, we
> will consider a '===' operator.
>
> -- Roberto
>