FWIW: Clojure (the "new Lisp") uses (identical? a b) I don't know why Rich Hickey dropped 'eq?' and went with 'identical?', but I like it.
Cheers, Tom 2010/9/7 Brendan Eich <[email protected]> > On Sep 7, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Ash Berlin wrote: > > > On 7 Sep 2010, at 17:18, P T Withington wrote: > >> On 2010-09-07, at 12:02, Brendan Eich wrote: > >> > >>> 3. identical > >> > >> If I had a vote, +1 > >> > >> Is there someplace that concisely explains the cost of just fixing `===` > so I could understand why that is not a choice? > >> > > > > FWIW this sort of naming issue is a rabbit hole that CommonJS fell down > when it came to method names for a unit test framework[0]. There was no real > consensus, but we settled on equal meaning == and strictEqual meaning ===. > > Those are fine names, and it seems you came out of the rabbit hole (under > the bikeshed ;-). > > All naming discussions can rathole (let's say), but I hope we can conclude > this thread with a clear winner, as it seems you guys ultimately did. > > Also, you picked spec-like names for == and === but there is no SameValue > or Object.eq, I take it (even though one can be written in JS). If you had > such a thing, I wonder whether you wouldn't name it identical (not > reallyStrictEqual or sameValue). > > But I don't want to send you back down the hole to find out! This > es-discuss hole will do. > > /be > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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