Steven Schveighoffer: > to me, is means "ignore semantic meaning, do a bitwise compare" regardless > of reference status. > > For example comparing 2 array structs using == will check that all the > data is the same, but using "is" makes it compare bitwise the structs > directly. > > I see no difference with floating points, except you can't get at the bits > easily. The existence of isIdentical could be completely replaced by one > or two instructions generated by the compiler when it sees "float is > float".
You can try expressing this idea in the main D group. Bye, bearophile
