[Seaside-dev] When is Symbol>>#= not Symbol>>#==?

Paolo Bonzini bonzini at gnu.org
Thu Nov 13 17:13:12 UTC 2008


> The problem is that on the other platforms I am familiar with (VA
> Smalltalk, VW and Dolphin), an equality test on Symbols is an identity
> test.  But on Squeak, it isn't -- So "#abc' = 'abc'" answers true on
> Squeak and false on VA/VW/Dolphin.

... and GNU Smalltalk.

> Have any of the Seaside porters run into this incompatibility before?

Maybe not in Seaside (I don't recall at least) but it was a royal PITA
with OmniBrowser.

Paolo


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