Why doesn't == test all objects? WHY?
Here's some perl mason code I've been wrestling with. I couldn't figure out what was the problem until I remembered that in perl, you gotta use 'eq' to compare strings.
<table>
% foreach my $rec (@records) {
% foreach my $k ( keys %ARGS ) {
% if ( $ARGS{$k} ) {
<tr>
<td><% $rec->{$k} %></td><td><% $ARGS{$k} %></td>
% if ( $ARGS{$k} eq $rec->{$k} ) {
<td>MATCH!</td>
% }
</tr>
% }
% }
% }
</table>
Will this be changed in perl6? I really hope so. Python's == operator works great for all different sorts of objects. And ruby makes it super easy to overload every operator in the book. But not in perl! We gotta use a different comparison operator for different objects! GAHH!
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