From: Nick Bhanji <nickbh@...4u.ca>
Date: 2008-11-07T23:54:23+09:00
Subject: Re: array.equal?

Robert Klemme wrote:
> 2008/11/7 Nick Bhanji <nickbh@weassemble4u.ca>:
>> My questions:
>> 1. why is equal? listed in the methods for the array
>> 2. what is the definition of equal? in the case of array?
>> 3. why is there another function eql? performing the actual equal test
> 
> My questions:
> 
> 1. What conclusions did you draw from your test results?
> 2. What did the documentation say?
> 
> robert

Since I went through the documentation for the Array.  equal? method 
does not exist.  eql? does exist. Prior to this -- I used [1,1].methods 
and it listed the methods that are available for the object.  Now my 
conclusion is that no to trust methods function -- because it does not 
do what it is supposed to do -- that is allow a programmer to know what 
methods are supported.
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