Aaron Crane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Piers Cawley writes:
>> I found myself mulling over:
>>
>> $obj.is($other_obj);
>>
>> Which seems to work reasonably well, and I'd be rather surprised if it
>> clashed with anything with different semantics...
>
> I quite like it. It also has the advantage of disallowing the equivalent
> of:
>
> my $stored_identity = $obj.id;
> # Time passes...
> if ($other_obj.id == $stored_identity) {
> # Massive breakage ahoy
> }
Ah, sorry, I thought that went without saying. So I didn't say
it. That's actually the problem that led me to come up with .is in
the first place.
> There just isn't any way you can get .is() to compare identities at
> different times.
Indeed. I'm definitely liking it the more I think about it. Someone
will be along to say 'but I use C<is> in *all* my classes!' soon,
mark my words.
