Killing equals_t

Mehrdad wfunction at hotmail.com
Sun May 13 17:56:19 PDT 2012


On Monday, 14 May 2012 at 00:53:20 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would anyone be terribly angry if equals_t was deprecated and 
> later removed? I sent a patch a while back to add a compare_t 
> type for consistency, but the consensus ended up being that 
> it'd be better to get rid of equals_t.

I don't have an opinion about either, but just to point this out:

Equality is NOT the same thing as a comparison returning zero.
(Consider complex numbers.)


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