Bill Allombert on Tue, 08 Jul 2014 14:13:07 +0200


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Re: concat([])


On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 10:28:24AM +0200, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> 2014-07-08 9:13 GMT+02:00 Karim Belabas <Karim.Belabas@math.u-bordeaux.fr>:
> 
> > No. The semantics of "==" is fuzzy (because it must apply to all pairs
> > of PARI objects and decide whether they should be "mathematically"
> > equal, which leaves plenty of room for ambiguities and abuse),
> 
> I'd go so far as to say that understanding what "x==y" means is the
> hardest step, causing the most logical bugs, in the transition from
> any previous language you knew (except maybe APL) to Pari/GP.

If you are translating code, you can use === instead.

Cheers,
Bill.