Object.opEquals, opCmp, toHash

[Don Clugston]

On 16/02/12 11:16, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/16/2012 1:47 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
>> I'm less sure about pure, though. What if (for example) you have a
>> struct which
>> is just an index into a global table? Like a Windows handle, for
>> example. That
>> should still work.
>
> Without pure, associative arrays cannot work reliably.

That's a good argument.

> I'd suggest that if one is relying on a mutable global array, that one
> shouldn't use opEquals, opCmp, etc., and should use functions with other
> names.

I would say, that the solution would be a (library) implementation of 
logical pure.