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Re: [Json] Consensus call: establishing name equality

Jacob Davies <jacob@well.com> Fri, 21 June 2013 23:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Consensus call: establishing name equality
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:

> Hm, I think this is useful.  I’ve seen people go off the rails trying to
> be overly clever comparing strings, so this in effect is just telling them
> not to overthink. -T
>

Is this definition of equality needed elsewhere in the document though?
Standing alone it seems a little odd - there's no discussion how to compare
two numbers, two objects, or two lists for equality, so why are
strings-used-for-names special?

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