InternetAddress comparison fail

[David Eagen via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 01:16:39 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
wrote:
> Why doesn't the equals operator work on the InternetAddress 
> class?
>
> import std.stdio;
> import std.socket;
> void main()
> {
>   auto addr1 = new InternetAddress("192.168.0.1", 80);
>   auto addr2 = new InternetAddress("192.168.0.1", 80);
>   assert(addr1 == addr2); // FAILS
> }
>
> If I am not mistaken, the == operator is overriden by the 
> opEquals method.  I don't see any opEquals method in std.socket 
> so I'm wondering if this is by design or someone overlooked it?

I ran into this too and made a helper to do the comparison (using 
toAddrString) so I could move forward with my project.

Adding opEquals and opCmp is probably low-hanging fruit and a 
good place for someone to start working on Phobos.