On 9-Jul-09, at 5:58 AM, Hernan Wilkinson wrote:

> So, Stef, what do we do? :-)
> I think we have discussed very interesting things is this thread. My
> conclusions are:

> 4) Go back to how things were

+1

Frankly I think you could reuse '==' for the *exact* compare between  
two items in the Number hierarchy
and leave '='  as the yes they are *equal* but not the same....

then you could really rummage about and fix/explain/justify why

29347921734912734927349279273499274 ==  
(29347921734912734927349279273499274-1+1)  is false and explain why
in the same manner as saying (1/10) == 0.1 is false, & resolve why 0.1  
== (0.1-0.01+0.01) is false yet 10 == (10-1+1)  is true.

And yes people do things like use '==' for numbers, for the strangest  
reasons.

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