From: George Ogata <g_ogata@...>
Date: 2004-06-19T13:08:21+09:00
Subject: Re: How to make generic #== method?

Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@gmail.com> writes:

>> > 2) It doesn't work if the class has hash attribute because
>> >    {'a' => 1}.hash != {'a' => 1}.hash
>> 
>> Now that is weird.  I've a faint recollection of it being mentioned on
>> ruby-talk before though, so perhaps its not a bug.
>
> This makes sense, as both hashes are mutable. Their contents may be
> the same, but they shouldn't be mistaken for the same object, as
> either one's value could change at any time.

So are Arrays and Strings (and plently else), but they can be hashed.
That's what the #rehash method is for, isn't it?

One possible reason I can think of is that the default_procs should
probably be compared too, but we can't compare procs in general.