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| From | Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> |
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| Subject | Re: "equals" - a bad name? |
| Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2016 22:05:44 -0400 |
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On 8/18/2016 12:42 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 06:45:26 -0700, Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> > wrote: >> On 13 Aug 2016 23:25:20 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) >> wrote: >> >>> »a == b« and »a.equals( b )« have two different meanings >>> in Java. Fairly enough, they are written in different >>> ways in Java. >> >> Some Forth philosophy here. They pronounce words in a special way. >> They got into the habit since so many methods/operators contain >> punctuation. >> >> e.g. ! is pronounced "store". @ is pronounced "fetch" >> >> Some possible conventions: >> >> == very equals >> == equalsequals >> == same >> == identical > > In PHP, == is not identical; that would be ===. I got bit on > this on a uni assignment. PHP object1==object2 is Java object1.equals(object2), but the PHP class can not override the functionality it is always all fields PHP object1===object2 is Java object1==object2 PHP simple1===simple2 is Java simple1==simple2 PHP simple1==simple2 does not have a Java equivalent as PHP is doing various type conversions to see if it is logical the same Arne
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Re: "equals" - a bad name? Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2016-08-18 06:45 -0700
Re: "equals" - a bad name? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-08-18 09:42 -0700
Re: "equals" - a bad name? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-08-18 22:05 -0400
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