From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-05-06T09:38:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting rid of Object#equal?()?

Hi,

In message "Re: Getting rid of Object#equal?()?"
    on Fri, 6 May 2005 09:26:58 +0900, Saynatkari <ruby-ml@magical-cat.org> writes:

|>I'm not motivated too much to remove "equal?".  I assume Ruby users
|>smart enough to distinguish above three without any confusion once
|>they are told.  Are there any reason to remove?
|
|I suppose it is not a huge source of bugs; however, the term
|'equal' does not mean 'same'--although it may be implied--and
|currently the same word (eql and equal) is used for two different
|meanings.

If it's not a source of bugs, why bother?  Lisp have even more (=, eq,
eql, equal and equalp).

							matz.