Re: 0x102a70?

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Jan 31, 2005, at 03:10, Rici Lake wrote:

> You can do that by giving both tables the same __eq metamethod, 
> although I'm not a great fan of that solution. See below.

By the way, where are all those 'magic' operators defined?

> Note the difference between the __eq approach for equality (in which 
> equality is defined by the compared values) and the above approach (in 
> which equality is defined by the containing table).

Ok. I will dig deeper in those exotic metatable operators :)

In the meantime, here is the monster I have concocted... sigh...

        -- instance method to compare the given object with this list 
for equality
        this.equals = function( anObject )
                if this == anObject then
                        return true
                end

                if anObject ~= nil then
                        local count = this.size()

                        if count == anObject.size() then
                                for index = 1, count do
                                        local aValue = this.get( index )
                                        local anotherValue = 
anObject.get( index )

                                        if this.isKindOf( aValue ) == 
true and aValue.equals( anotherValue ) == false then
                                                return false
                                        end

                                        if aValue ~= anotherValue then
                                                return false
                                        end
                                end

                                return true
                        end
                end

                return false
        end


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