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[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 points 6 days ago

Is there ever an instance when you do want to compare object identity instead of “equal”-ness? I find this behaviour just confusing for beginners and not useful for experts.

[-] expr@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago

99.99% of the time you want to compare by value, which is why languages defaulting to comparing by reference is a stupid default.

[-] Redkey@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

Not to take away from your very good point, but I think the word you might be looking for is "eqivalence".

[-] anton 1 points 5 days ago

Is there ever an instance when you do want to compare object identity instead of “equal”-ness?

Maybe if you have to check if the object is one you already hold a lock for or account for some similar consequence of questionable architecture.

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