Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!alice!ark
From: ark@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ default comparison operator
Message-ID: <7885@alice.UUCP>
Date: 24 May 88 03:56:46 GMT
References: <28535@cca.CCA.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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Posted: Mon May 23 23:56:46 1988

In article <28535@cca.CCA.COM>, alex@cca.UUCP writes:


> 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?


The main argument against it is that C does not have
a default structure comparison operator.