Re: Moose::Object->equals();

On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Caleb Cushing wrote:

> a while back I wrote a piece of code that was basically a generic
> equals method for objects. I'm wondering if I patched moose to give
> objects this functionality if it'd be accepted?
>
> basically it was something like
>
> refaddr ==
> blessed?
> isa?
> ...
>
> and a few more checks, the external interface was
>
> 1 classes are equivalent
> 0 classes are definitely not equivalent
> undef superclass/unmodifed method says it's not equivalent but it
> still could be determined to be equal by a subclass.

I'm confused. Do you mean classes or objects. Presumably objects, right?

Is there any reason this can't start life as a MooseX?


-dave

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