WAT: opCmp and opEquals woes
Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jul 25 13:35:35 PDT 2014
On 7/25/2014 5:10 AM, Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> Not at all.
>
> If you have a type that has partial ordering (only cares about opCmp, not about
> opEquals), but still keeps the default opEquals, then this would silently break
> someone's code by changing their opEquals semantic.
>
> THIS is the breaking change.
Yes. A subtle but extremely important point. Comparison and Equality are
fundamentally different operations. Defining opEquals to be the equivalent of
opCmp==0 is utterly breaking that.
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