On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Michael Lazzaro wrote: > As I said before, I would strongly doubt that there will be an .id > method _at all_ on any builtin types/classes -- because unless we used > memory location as the id, it would imply that a separate id had to be > calculated and stored with each object, which would be expensive, and > if we _did_ use mem location as the id, getting and storing the id > would be largely useless, since it could change unpredictably. > > So I would imagine it _is_ possible to test that two values "have the > same identity", but I would imagine it is -not- possible to actually > get what that identity "is". There's no .id method, per se, unless you > create one yourself.
What about the \ (reference) operator? If you take two references to an object, they should compare the same, right? ~ John Williams
