Re: diff. betw. equal and eq on simbols


Pascal Costanza <pc@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> If you use EQ you tell readers of your program that you don't expect
> to compare anything but just objects. If you use EQL you tell
> readers that you expect to also deal with numbers and
> characters. And so on. This will help readers of your code to make
> assumptions about the intent of the source code and ultimately to
> better understand it. If you always use the same generic operators
> (like EQUAL) the less information you reveal about your intentions.

I almost never use eq, and therefore I'm not giving the programmer any
guarantees about symbols vs. characters vs. numbers etc. Instead I
just use eql.

I think that this is a perfectly valid approach, and I would recommend
it to others. eq is a waste of programmer time as far as I am
concerned.

-russ
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