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Feature #7068

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ability to deactivate Hash#compare_by_identity()

Added by sunaku (Suraj Kurapati) over 11 years ago. Updated about 10 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Target version:
[ruby-core:47697]

Description

Hello,

I am using ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux].

There is no way to deactivate a Hash's compare by identity behavior:

h = Hash.new
h.compare_by_identity
h.compare_by_identity? #=> true
h.compare_by_identity
h.compare_by_identity? #=> still true

I want the ability to deactivate that behavior afterwards, like this:

h.compare_by_identity = false

Thanks for your consideration.

Updated by drbrain (Eric Hodel) over 11 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback

=begin

h = {}
h.compare_by_identity = true
h['a'] = 1
h['a'] = 2
h.compare_by_identity = false

What value is returned for (({h['a']}))?
=end

Updated by mame (Yusuke Endoh) over 11 years ago

  • Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
  • Priority changed from Normal to 3
  • Target version set to 2.6

Please make the proposal complete: your use case and the corner case behavior (Eric said).

--
Yusuke Endoh

Updated by sunaku (Suraj Kurapati) about 10 years ago

Eric Hodel wrote:

=begin

h = {}
h.compare_by_identity = true
h['a'] = 1
h['a'] = 2
h.compare_by_identity = false

What value is returned for (({h['a']}))?
=end

Good point. This feature would violate the invariant of hash keys being unique. You may reject this feature request. Thanks.

Updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze) about 10 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Rejected
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