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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 17:23:32 -0700
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 10/26/2014 05:12 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Are the following two expressions the same?
>
> x is y
>
> Id(x) == id(y)
>
> ?

Nope.  If the value if `id(x)` is not interned, then the two value could be different objects that still represent the 
same value.

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~Ethan~