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

[Fuzzyman]

bon... at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.

You may fail to see the confusion, but feel free to add to it ;-)

The above gentleman is asserting that in *Python* the term value has no
meaning.

I asserted in response :

> > 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.

All the best,


Fuzzyman
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