Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C++ default comparison operator
Message-ID: <1988May24.170429.994@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <28535@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: Tue, 24 May 88 17:04:29 GMT

> Now that structure/class assignment is defined as (recursive) memberwise
> assignment in the absense of assignment operators, I wonder if a similar
> recursive memberwise definition of equality comparison is not in order.
> What are the stylistic, semantic, and implementation-specific arguments
> for and against such a feature?

Here's one against:  how do you compare unions?
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