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Re:Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang by delta64 on Saturday April 30, 2022 @09:13AM (#31215837)
How is that any different to some opaque method call? By the same logic `a.equals(b)` might be doing something funky under the hood
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Re:Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang by AnimalMuppet on Saturday April 30, 2022 @12:51PM (#31217333)
True. But people think about it a bit differently. People don't always expect == to be a function call.
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Re:Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang by delta64 on Saturday April 30, 2022 @04:03PM (#31218802)
Sure, but I think '== might be a function call' is a lot less confusing than '== sometimes compares for equal value and sometimes doesn't'
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