Re: [PATCH] Implement `equal' for hash tables

> From: Sean Whitton <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:36:33 +0100
> 
> Nick Alcock [04/Aug  9:16pm +01] wrote:
> > Hash tables are equal if they have equal atoms, weakness, and equality
> > and hash functions.
> >
> > (This also means that equal of structures which contain hash tables is
> > useful now, too, which is really the reason I implemented this: right
> > now, hash tables are a sort of poison pill which render any object into
> > which they are inserted unequal with all others.  No more.)
> 
> Is it useful in a programming language for hash table objects to be
> directly comparable like this?  I'm not sure that it is.

Exactly my thoughts.  Perhaps showing a real-life use case where this
is useful would help us understand the need.

> Adding Stefan for comment.