Why keep identity-based equality comparison?

[Mike Meyer]

Antoon Pardon <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> writes:
> Op 2006-01-10, Mike Meyer schreef <mwm at mired.org>:
>>> Now you can take the practical option and decide that programmatically
>>> it make no sense to compare a specific couple of values and throw an
>>> exception in this case, but it doesn't matter much which test you are
>>> conducting at that point.
>> Can you provide a case where having a test for equality throw an
>> exception is actually useful?
> I'm not going to bother with that.

Since you're being vague about what you want, and won't provide
examples to show why you want things to behave whatever way you want,
I can't really say much else about it.

        <mike
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