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Symbol equality method #= - weird condition in the Pharo sourcecode
by Petr Fischer March 1, 2019

March 1, 2019

Hello, this is Symbol equality method in Pharo: 1: = aSymbol 2: "Compare the receiver and aSymbol." 3: self == aSymbol ifTrue: [^ true]. 4: self class == aSymbol class ifTrue: [^ false]. 5: "Use String comparison otherwise" 6: ^ super = aSymbol Look at line 4 - what does it mean? That's wrong, isn't it? Typically, every symbol comparisons end up in line 3, but if you do some work with forward proxies for example, condition on line 3 is "false" and then weird things on line 4 happens. If line 4 and further are correct, can someone explain a little? Thanks! pf

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