Re: [Caml-list] Semantics of physical equality

[Michal Moskal <malekith@pld-linux.org>]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 10:55:37AM +0100, Andreas Rossberg wrote:
> > type test = 
> > {
> > mutable a:int;
> > b:int
> > };;
> > 
> > let r = {a=0;b=2};;
> > 
> > let x = r and y = r in 
> > assert((x.a==y.a)&&(x.b==y.b)&&(x==y))
> > ;;
> > 
> > Does this always ok ?
> 
> No, only
> 
>   let x = r and y = r in
>   assert (x == y)
> 
> Neither r.b nor r.a are mutable, only r itself is.

But both r.a and r.b are ints, so it is always OK (== and = are the same
on ints).

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