Language Design: Equality & Identity – Part 3: Solution

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Let’s take a step back and think about what these equality operations do: Reference equality acts as a built-in, hard-coded comparison of the references themselves. Value equality compares equality according to a user-defined implementation. Is it possible to re-interpret reference equality that retains the existing behavior for reference types, but adds intuitive and useful behavior for value…

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