Default implementation of opEquals
Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Oct 7 05:34:34 PDT 2016
On Friday, 7 October 2016 at 12:04:09 UTC, Mark wrote:
> "If opEquals is not specified, the compiler provides a default
> version that does member-wise comparison"
That's referring to structs. For classes, it gives an identity
comparison function here:
https://dlang.org/spec/operatoroverloading.html#equals
> Wouldn't member-wise comparison be a more intuitive default?
Classes are supposed to represent encapsulated objects where you
don't look at the members from the outside, so that might be
surprising in a different way.
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