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[Caml-list] Semantics of physical equality

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Date:	2004-02-28 (10:35)
From:	Michal Moskal <malekith@p...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Semantics of physical equality

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:21:35AM +0100, Andreas Rossberg wrote:
> > But both r.a and r.b are ints, so it is always OK (== and = are the same
> > on ints).
> 
> That is what the current implementation does, but it is not guaranteed.

On integers and characters, physical equality is identical to structural
equality. [1]

It depends what you mean by ,,guaranteed'' though.

[1] http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/htmlman/libref/Pervasives.html

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