From: Matt Mower <matt.mower@...>
Date: 2005-01-08T19:01:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange behavior of hash key

Hi Traz,

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:51:25 +0900, Traz <A.Reith@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Because Hash uses Object#eql? to test for equality it makes them
> >different keys and hence your example fails.
> 
> Matt, string keys have the same behaviour, no ? :
> >> "one".object_id
> => 22476232
> >> "one".object_id
> => 22473868
> 

I think the answer here is that String redefines the eql? method to
compare content instead of 'object_id' so String literal keys will
work.

> >This behavior is changing in 1.9:
> Thank Joel ! So finaly, it was a bug in 1.8 ?
> 

Did they define Hash#eql? in 1.9?

Regards,

Matt

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