Question

Enhance = and == docs as far as numbers handling is concerned (make them self referenced, make clear what == offers beyond = -except that it will only work for numbers)

Answer 1

Comment made by: importer

laurentpetit said: Richn, by "will fail on non-numbers", do you mean "should throw an exception" (and thus the patch must change the code), or just as it works today :

(== :a :a)
false

?

Answer 2

Comment made by: importer

laurentpetit said: (link: [file:bH0XMCFjur3PLMeJe5aVNr)]

Answer 3

Comment made by: importer

richhickey said: Updating tickets (#94, #96, #104, #119, #163)

Answer 4

Comment made by: importer

richhickey said: I've fixed the code so == on non-numbers throws

Answer 5

Comment made by: importer

Converted from http://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/tickets/163
Attachments:
fixbug163.diff - https://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/documents/bH0XMCFjur3PLMeJe5aVNr/download/bH0XMCFjur3PLMeJe5aVNr

Answer 6

Comment made by: importer

richhickey said: I don't want to recommend, in = doc, that people should prefer == for any case. People should always prefer =. If there is a perf, difference we can make that go away. Then the only difference with == is that it will fail on non-numbers, and that should be the only reason to choose it.

Answer 7

Reference: https://clojure.atlassian.net/browse/CLJ-163 (reported by alex+import)