'==' vs. 'is' behavior

[piet at cs.uu.nl]

>>>>> Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.xerox.com> (BJ) writes:

BJ> Actually, the presence of "is" and "==" in Python is one of the nicer
BJ> features.  "is" is the Lisp "eq", while "==" is the Lisp "equal".
BJ> These are really the two comparisons from Lisp that make the most
BJ> sense.

BJ> Java, on the other hand, only gives you "eql"!  Ugh!  Bletcherous!

Huh???
Java has == which is equivalent to Python's `is' for objects and == for
primitive values, and it has the equals method for objects which is
like Python's ==. 
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