Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Wall) writes: > > Which basically comes down to this: an id represents a location in > > memory for any objects that don't override the .id method. > > Aiee! No! Please don't let things override the address-in-memory method, > as that makes foo.id == bar.id comparisons dubious at best and useless at > worst.
Java-like final methods in core classes ? (And even in Java, Object.hashCode(), which returns the object's memory address in its base implementation, is overridable.) And by the way, doesn't Perl 6 allow C<\$foo == \$bar> ? (I missed the beggining of the thread.)
