[Haskell-cafe] How to check object's identity?

Ketil Malde ketil at malde.org
Sun Jan 4 18:31:14 EST 2009


Aaron Tomb <atomb at galois.com> writes:

> As others have explained, the == operator doesn't tell you whether two
> values are actually stored at the same location in memory.

Nobody yet mentioned that (==) doesn't guarantee *anything* - it's a
user defined function.  So while it may and should give structural
equality, it also may not.

-k
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