From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f47e0c6e2e5fd00d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Gautier Subject: Re: Function name problem Date: 2000/01/16 Message-ID: <38824547.11E20D26@maths.unine.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 573482857 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <85qecu$24r$1@nnrp1.dej a.com> <01qg4.3200$%Y3.193028@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: 16 Jan 2000 22:23:47 +0100, 130.125.13.32 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > ...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 "=" ... -- Gautier _____\\________________\_______\ http://members.xoom.com/gdemont/