Re: RFC 54 (v1) Operators: Polymorphic comparisons

[Clayton Scott]

Dan Sugalski wrote:
> 
> At 05:12 PM 8/7/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> > >>>>> "DC" == Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > >> I currently fail to switch to 'eq' many times when I should, but the
> > >> failure mode is obvious. Her the failure mode will be really strange.
> >
> >DC> I would claim that the failure mode is not obvious: "dog"=="cat" is
> >true????
> >
> >Sure it is. I pass a large amount of data and _everything_ matches! Voila,
> >I messed up the test. Test looks okay. (If I was a newbie, '==' is broken.
> >Given my experience, I used the wrong test.)
> 
> Both ways have issues. "dog"=="cat", but "10.0"ne"10". Both are arguably
> wrong--dogs aren't cats, but 10.0 really is 10...

        I first thought that "==" and "eq" were cut from the same cloth as
 "||" and "or" that is the difference was precedence. But I guess I
learned.

        Or did I?

-- 
Clayton Scott