On Thursday, 25 October 2012 at 02:12:58 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 13:31:14 Walter Bright wrote:
The default compare for structs is a bit compare of the
contents.
Which definitely seems inherently broken. Doing that only works
if the struct
only contains integral types, character types, or bool. Nothing
else will
compare properly that way. It really needs to work like arrays
do (or are
supposed to anyway) and compare each member according to == and
only fallback
to an outright bitwise compare when it knows that the results
would be
identical (i.e. because all of the members are integral types,
character
types, bool, or other structs which hold only integral types,
character types,
or bool - be it directly or in other structs that they hold).
Bitwise comparison
is the is operator's job, not ==.
- Jonathan M Davis
+1
I can only agree with this. People who monitor the NG know about
the problem but it is probably very confusing to D newbies.
