castironpi wrote:
> It would be nice to put together a really canonical case of the use of
> the 'is' comparison. FTSOA for the sake of argument, when do you use
> it? Why is it even in the language?
My poster child use case is in a MUDD game. For instance, the player
represented by `this_player` has picked up the yoghurt. We notify the
other players using code that boils down to:
for person in this_room.inhabitants:
if person is not this_player:
person.notify ('%s has picked up the %s.'
% (this_player.name, 'yoghurt'))
The `is` test avoids telling this_player something he already knows.
Perhaps the code could be written to make an equality test work, but then
again, perhaps the game could have a much more interesting use for equality
between persons.
Mel.
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