InternetAddress comparison fail

[Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 17:26:29 UTC, MattCoder wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 16:39:05 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
> wrote:
>> Using toAddrString results in the following steps:
>
>> 1. Allocate memory for the InternetAddress (GC memory by the 
>> way)
>> 2. Convert the uint address to an IP Address string
>> 3. Convert the ushort port to a string.
>> 4. Do steps 1-3 to the second InternetAddress
>> 5. Do a string comparision with the two InternetAddresses.
>
> Hmm well, you don't need to convert anything (like ushort to 
> string etc), you can compare the fields between these 2 classes 
> directly:
>
> import std.stdio;
> import std.socket;
>
> class myIA : InternetAddress{
>     this(in char[] addr, ushort port){
>         super(addr, port);
>     }
> 	
>     bool opEquals(myIA obj){
>         foreach (i, v; this.tupleof) {
>             if(v != obj.tupleof[i]){
>                 return false;
>             }
>         }
>         return true;
>     }
> }
>
> void main(){
>   auto addr1 = new myIA("192.168.0.1", 80);
>   auto addr2 = new myIA("192.168.0.1", 80);
>   assert(addr1.opEquals(addr2));
> }
>
> Overall I understood your point/pain, but unfortunately this is 
> what I could do to manage your problem (I'm using D heavily for 
> a couple months now).
>
> I'll continue looking over this thread to see what the experts 
> will say. :)
>
> Matheus.

My problem isn't comparing the two addresses..I can do that using

(addr1.addr == addr2.addr && addr1.port == addr2.port)

my question was, should the InterenetAddress class have an 
opEquals or an opCmp or were they ommitted on purpose?