From: "trans (Thomas Sawyer)" <transfire@...>
Date: 2012-11-24T13:35:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:50009] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7377] #indetical? as an alias for #equal?


Issue #7377 has been updated by trans (Thomas Sawyer).


@boris
> You give +1 to stability. I give +1 to having a synonym #identical? for #equal?

Nothing to do with stability. A bit more like +1 to defeatism.
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Feature #7377: #indetical? as an alias for #equal?
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7377#change-33783

Author: aef (Alexander E. Fischer)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Category: core
Target version: next minor


As my feature request #7359 got rejected, here a more backward-compatible approach:

In my opinion the difference between #eql? and #equal? is really unintuitive. How about making their difference more obvious by giving one of them a more accurate name? 

My proposal is to alias #equal? to #identical?.

I'll write a patch, if this is acceptable.


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