[qmtest] problem with qmtest tutorial

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Thu Dec 16 07:29:10 UTC 2004


On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:52:56PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Oh, dear -- I wonder how many places we made that mistake.  I think it 
> was semi-intentional; some functional languages guarantee equal strings 
> will be "eq", not just "eql".  Got a patch?

It probably has something to do with, everywhere else in the code we
use the object Database.RESOURCE (which happens to == "resource") as
our tag for resources, and _do_ intentionally use "is" comparisons.
Which are correct, albeit kinda premature optimizational.

-- Nathaniel

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