My bad. Didn't read this carefully enough to realize this comment applied
to my issue.


On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 11:47 AM, John Myles White <[email protected]
> wrote:

> The NEWS.md file does cover this:
>
> • Ranges and arrays with the same elements are now unequal. This allows
> hashing and comparing ranges to be faster. (#5778)
>
> On Aug 25, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Ed Scheinerman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks again for the pointer to the release notes.
> >
> > The issue I raised was not dealt with in the release notes: namely, 1:5
> == [1:5] evaluates as true in Julia 0.2 but as false in Julia 0.3.
> >
> > I think the new behavior is a problem. I was happy with the old
> behavior, but if this is a bad idea for some reason, I would prefer that
> Julia raised an error in this situation rather than give a result that (in
> my opinion) is wrong. Certainly Julia compares objects of different type
> for equality (e.g. 0==0.0) so the fact that 1:5 and [1:5] are different
> types is not the issue.
> >
> >
> > On Saturday, August 23, 2014 9:06:50 AM UTC-4, Valentin Churavy wrote:
> > There is https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v0.3.0/NEWS.md
> >
> > On Saturday, 23 August 2014 15:02:56 UTC+2, Ed Scheinerman wrote:
> > Is there a document describing new features and significant changes
> between versions 0.2 and 0.3?
> >
> > One item I noticed is that in 0.2 the express 1:5 == [1:5] evaluated as
> true, but in 0.3 it's false.
>
>


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