From: Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch>
Subject: Re: Function name problem
Date: 2000/01/16
Date: 2000-01-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38824547.11E20D26@maths.unine.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: B4A7F12A.45EC%Harald.Schmidt@tomcat.de
> ...my intenstion was not to implement a functional operator
> equivalent to C/C++. My primary business is Smalltalk, and
> I was trying to implement the equal method "=", means
> equality of any attribute of two given objects. The second
> method "==" (basis for this discussion) is a identity
> method comparing the identity of two given objects.
Anyway for exported software I'd prefer to use a more
explicit name to avoid any confusion (e.g. for comparing
2 polynomials, fractions or multi-precision integers) with the
`raw', built-in "=" ...
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2000-01-15 0:00 Function name problem Harald Schmidt
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Harald Schmidt
2000-01-16 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-16 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-01-16 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
2000-01-16 0:00 ` David A. Cobb
2000-01-16 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-17 0:00 ` David A. Cobb
2000-01-17 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Harald Schmidt
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Gautier [this message]
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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