[Grace-core] Collection naming

Andrew P. Black black at cs.pdx.edu
Thu Jul 3 09:52:38 PDT 2014


James,

On 2 Jul 2014, at 23:44, James Noble <kjx at ecs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote:

> perhaps - but it could equally be misleading / surprising - because the behaviour of equals
> will now be different depending upon collection mutability - so arguably bad practice.

But you have been arguing for exactly this difference for three years!  That is, that we should use eval, which means equality for immutable things and identity for mutable things.

	Andrew


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