- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:45:48 -0500
- To: "Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake@acm.org>
- CC: Paul Butkiewicz <arabbit@earthlink.net>, www-dom@w3.org, xml-sig@python.org
Fred L. Drake wrote: > Perhaps there is no fully general equality that isn't identity? To be precise: Fully general equality (fge) for mutable objects is identity. Fge for immutable objects is the fge-ness of their parts, since indiscernable objects are identical (Leibniz's criterion). E.g. immutable strings are equal if their characters are equal, but (mutable) vectors are equal only if they are identical objects. (There are other definitions of equality, of course, but they are not general.) -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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