[squeak-dev] Comparing collections, default behavior?

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 19:01:02 UTC 2011


2011/2/4 Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com>:
> Since Collection includes #difference: protocol,
>
> i just thought that the default equality could be expressed like following:
>
> Collection>>= otherCollection
>   ^ (self  difference: otherCollection) isEmpty
>
> In other words, if two things having no differences, then they are equal. No? :)
>

Let's presume difference is defined compatibly to this goal.
Equality would answer false at first difference instead of collecting
all the differences first.

Nicolas

>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
>



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