Is 'everything' a refrence or isn't it?

[Donn Cave]

Quoth Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org>:
| Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> writes:
|> Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> writes:
|>> > Whether the '==' operation conforms to your idea of what equality
|>> > means is unclear.
|>> Care to say what it does mean, then?
|> I'd say a==b doesn't necessarily mean a and b have the same value.
|
| Care to say what it does mean (as opposed to what it doesn't mean), then?

I'm happy to say "==" means "the same" when applied to values, but one
could reasonably object that "the same" ought to account for all properties
of a value, and not just equality.  The issue doesn't seem to come up when
writing programs, though, in my experience.

	Donn Cave, donn at drizzle.com