From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-11-24T20:40:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Hashes, Sets, and eql?

On Nov 24, 1:25 am, Aaron Patterson <aa...@tenderlovemaking.com>
wrote:

> Nope.  I don't want a shallow comparison.  I need to use my sets as hash
> keys, so I need .eql? and .hash.  Set calls eql? on the internal hash object.

And eql? implies a.hash == b.hash. That is an object comparison, since
Object#hash gives a unique value for every object like Object#id. What
you need is shallow comparison of values rather than objects: a == b.
I'm not sure how to easily make Hash do that.

Regards,
Jordan