From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2007-09-20T06:12:08+09:00
Subject: Re: The meaning of a = b in object oriented languages


On Sep 18, 2007, at 11:46 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote:

>> The only thing special about Ruby's 'primitive' classes is that they
>> behave such that identity is isomorphic to equality.  That is to
>> say that a.equal?(b) if and only iff (a == b).
>>
>
> Actually that's not really special, it's true of any object which
> hasn't overriden Object#==
>

Perhaps 'special' was not the right term.  I didn't mean to
suggest that the behavior was unique to those classes just that
they had that particular property.

Gary Wright