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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 02:20:54 -0500
To: Luke Palmer <fibon...@babylonia.flatirons.org>, dam...@conway.org
Subject: Re: Comparing Object Identity (was: Re: Stringification of references (Decision, Please?))
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At 9:43 PM -0700 12/11/02, Luke Palmer wrote:
>  > Mailing-List: contact perl6-language-h...@perl.org; run by ezmlm
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>>  Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:16:26 +1100
>>  From: Damian Conway <dam...@conway.org>
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>>  There's no need for special methods or (gods forbid) more operators.
>>  Just:
>>
>>       $obj1.id == $obj2.id
>>
>>  That's what the universal C<id> method is *for*.
>
>I rather like that.  It's used for hashing by default (in absence of a
>stringification or .hash (?) method), yes?

Not for string key hashes, no.
-- 
                                         Dan

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