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Re: [Json] Consensus call: establishing name equality

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Fri, 21 June 2013 23:22 UTC

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From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
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Subject: Re: [Json] Consensus call: establishing name equality
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Jacob Davies <jacob@well.com> wrote:

>
> 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?
>

Because
- We talk about duplicates so it's important to define what duplicate means
- they are, in effect, hash-table keys, so comparison really matters

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