Re: Comparing lists

jon klein <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.breve
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Feb 1, 2004, at 4:00 PM, Will Davis wrote:

> I've got around this by checking the items in the list for a z 
> component, but I'd still like to be able to work out why it happens. 
> Does list equality work differently?

Ah, I just looked at the code for testing list equality and see that 
it's not really doing what one would probably expect.  Right now, the 
lists are getting coerced to integers -- in other words, it's comparing 
the lengths of the lists, not the lists themselves!

I will make sure this gets fixed for the next version.  In the 
meantime, I would suggest that you stick with your workaround.  You 
should compare the individual elements of the list instead of trying to 
compare the entire list.

- jon klein

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