[cap-talk] EQ, MyCap? review

Charles Landau clandau at macslab.com
Tue Feb 12 17:23:49 EST 2008


At 5:14 PM -0500 2/12/08, Kevin Reid wrote:
>In E,
>
>    a == b
>
>is syntactic sugar for
>
>    __equalizer.sameEver(a, b)
>
>The operation provided by the built-in __equalizer object does not
>observably invoke either of its arguments.

Do E objects possess the __equalizer object implicitly? I'd assume so 
since I've never seen it in explicit code. Can it be optionally 
withheld from an object? If not, then in what sense is it an object?


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