See http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-internals@;perl.org/msg11308.html
for a closely-related discussion. /s On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, David Whipp wrote: > In Perl6, everything is an object. So almost everything is > neither a number nor a string. It probably doesn't make sense > to cast things to strings/ints, just to compare them. We > probably want a standard method: .equals(), that does a > class-specific comparison. > > The question is, will we be modifying the definnitions of == > and eq, so that one will call the .equals method explicity. And > what does the other do? Do we want to define them in terms of > identity vs equality? Then, is identity a class-specific thing > (i.e. a .identical() method); or is it an "address-in-memory" > kind of thing? > > Did I miss a previous discussion of this? > > > Dave. >
