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Strict equality comparison #18

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klmr opened this issue Nov 6, 2014 · 0 comments
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Strict equality comparison #18

klmr opened this issue Nov 6, 2014 · 0 comments
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klmr commented Nov 6, 2014

A tweet has been making its rounds lately:

@dylan_childs:

Apparently, in R…

"1" == 1
[1] TRUE
Dirty

Should we try advocating a strict equality comparison operator, akin to JavaScript’s/PHP’s ===? Its implementation is straightforward, the question is whether anybody would ever use it.

`%==%` = function (a, b)
    class(a) == class(b) & mode(a) == mode(b) & a == b …
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