On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:28:01 -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:19:33PM +0300, Yuval Kogman wrote: > : "10" == "10"; # dispatches to Str, due to better match > > Nope, that will continue to coerce to numeric comparison. The design > team did in fact consider pure "equivalence" MMD dispatch of == in > the last meeting, but rejected it in favor of "eqv"
BTW, regardless of whether it's called 'eqv' or '==', the semantics shared between the MMD variants of ~~ and eqv as proposed in the bottom of the message are not utter crap, right? -- () Yuval Kogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0xEBD27418 perl hacker & /\ kung foo master: /me does a karate-chop-flip: neeyah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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