I don't understand. What is "overwriting" an operator? Dave
On Apr 17, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Adam Stankiewicz wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My idea is to disallow overwriting of === operator, and make 'compare' > operator implement == instead. Why? > > 1. === means for me that two variables have reference to the same > object, so there is no point of overwriting it. Many programmers would > be confused. > 2. == always caused problems, above change gives it opportunity to > return to grace. > > You don't know if they are the same object? Use ===. Don't know if > these objects are the same, but only in eyes of programmer? Use ==. > Think about == or < as semantical operators, and === as hard-cored > is-the-same-object function. > > Overwriting === operator would also probably cause problems in > security (membrane design etc.), but it is only my guess. > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
