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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Rational for not making cursor tagged in Containers
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:37:34 +0200, Markus E Leypold wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:09:20 +0200, Markus E Leypold wrote:
>>
>>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>>> 
>>>> The predefined equality compares memory bit patterns. 

You skipped the rest of my post, which says that equality is defined in the
terms of the positions and the discriminants.

>>> Without looking into the ARM -- I'd be surprised if the ARM defined it
>>> like this. I'm sure it's more like
>>> 
>>>   - values numeric types shall be equal if their value are equal
>>
>> Exactly, values shall be equal if they are  ... equal! (:-))
> 
> Well, surpise: That was not formulated well, but there is probably no
> resonable way to define equality of primitive values (i.e. those not
> composed from other values) in a programming language
> specification.

What is your point then? What do you disagree with?

> We just have to assume that anybody knows when two
> values are equal.

And this is supposed to be the definition of?

-- 
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Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de