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Equality of dbObjects

tweeks

Are dbobjects ever equal?

I did a test, creating two labels that are exact copies of eachother: same lpp, same xy, etc. Watch what happens:

> forall(prop label1->? get(label1 prop) == get(label2 prop))
 t
> label1 == label2 
 nil 


Looks like equality is not implemented for labels?
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  • Andrew Beckett

    Thanks ;-)

    I'm not a developer (I'm an application engineer), but using this is definitely OK.

    The benefit of it being in a lexical scope is that the side effects are completely in your code - you won't be affecting any other users of the built-in operators. It could be rather dangerous to overload existing operators if that affected all callees of that operator/function, because it could break things and be very hard to debug - but since the scope of this is naturally limited, it's perfectly OK.

    Andrew.

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  • Andrew Beckett

    Thanks ;-)

    I'm not a developer (I'm an application engineer), but using this is definitely OK.

    The benefit of it being in a lexical scope is that the side effects are completely in your code - you won't be affecting any other users of the built-in operators. It could be rather dangerous to overload existing operators if that affected all callees of that operator/function, because it could break things and be very hard to debug - but since the scope of this is naturally limited, it's perfectly OK.

    Andrew.

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