Re: Why are these functions not equal?

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014-03-29 9:35 GMT+02:00 Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The Lua 5.2 manual says:
>>
>>> Equality between function values has changed. Now, a function definition
>>> may not create a new value; it may reuse some previous value if there is
>>> no observable difference to the new function.
>>
>> This remark says "may". It is surprising that in the simplest possible case,
>> it does not happen.
>>
>> ~~~~
>> $ lua
>> Lua 5.2.3  Copyright (C) 1994-2013 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>>> x=function() end; y=function() end
>>> print(x==y)
>> false
>>> print(string.dump(x)==string.dump(y))
>> true
>> ~~~~
>>
>
> Is this a quiz question or a legit one? Because I know the answer.

Well, I don't!