Can a simple a==b 'hang' in and endless loop?

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Fuzzyman wrote:
> Claudio Grondi wrote:
> > Steve Holden wrote:
> [snip..]
> > The problem here is, that I mean, that in Python it makes no sense to
> > talk about a value of an object, because it leads to weird things when
> > trying to give a definition what a value of an object is.
> >
>
> You're saying that C and Java get round that problem by sometimes
> defining value to mean 'the memory address and object is stored at'.
> That hardly seems to clarify what value *really* means, and can lead to
> some interesting confusions.
>
> Anyway - for the basic datatypes 'value' seems quite clear. It's only
> not clear what this might mean in user defined classes - where value
> means whatever you define it to mean.
I don't know much about Java but in C, I fail to see any confusion.
There is no such thing as user defined classes nor operator overload.