From: "boris_stitnicky (Boris Stitnicky)" <boris@...>
Date: 2012-11-20T07:03:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:49617] [ruby-trunk - Feature #7377] #indetical? as an alias for #equal?


Issue #7377 has been updated by boris_stitnicky (Boris Stitnicky).


+1, due to similar sounding name, these methods confuse beginners (me). #identical? feels much better.
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Feature #7377: #indetical? as an alias for #equal?
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7377#change-33132

Author: aef (Alexander E. Fischer)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Category: core
Target version: 


As my feature request #7359 got rejected, here a more backward-compatible approach:

In my opinion the difference between #eql? and #equal? is really unintuitive. How about making their difference more obvious by giving one of them a more accurate name? 

My proposal is to alias #equal? to #identical?.

I'll write a patch, if this is acceptable.


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