From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2005-05-06T00:51:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting rid of Object#equal?()?


From: Florian Gro�
>
> I think that equal?() is rarely used and that removing it completely
> would make sense -- after all  a.id == b.id  is not much longer than
> a.equal?(b).
>

I thought Object#id was deprecated.
If so,  a.id == b.id  is not much longer for not much longer.

a.object_id == b.object_id  involves pressing too many buttons.
I can cook eight microwave meals with that many button presses.

>
> Renaming it might also be an option -- I think Object#identical?() would
> be a good name.
>

A length problem, IMO.

a.ideql?(b) sounds, to me, better than it looks, but it does what it says.

>
> Florian Gross
>

daz