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  • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

    ok, this is not a programming question. It's a rant! given,

    object one = 0;
    object two = 0;
    bool same = one == two;

    what would you expect the value of same to be? WRONG! it's false! Whoever thought that was a valid result, is cracked!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: [edit] so, after going home and resting my brain a bit. it seems as though i'm the one that was cracked. thanks for the refresher course everyone. it is of course doing a reference comparison. which is correct. you all know how it is when you struggle with something and get too close to the trees to see the forest. anyway thanks to everyone for being your normally brutally honest selves. cheers. :-D [/edit]

    Fight Big Government:
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    Of course it's false! You just compared the references of two OBJECTS, not two values. It seems that you're the one who's "cracked".

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      Ian's next book could be titled "The Mystery of the Vanishing NaN" then? :)

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      Luc Pattyn wrote:

      The Mystery of the Vanishing NaN

      It's no mystery that any NaaN placed in front of me will vanish.

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      • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

        ok, this is not a programming question. It's a rant! given,

        object one = 0;
        object two = 0;
        bool same = one == two;

        what would you expect the value of same to be? WRONG! it's false! Whoever thought that was a valid result, is cracked!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: [edit] so, after going home and resting my brain a bit. it seems as though i'm the one that was cracked. thanks for the refresher course everyone. it is of course doing a reference comparison. which is correct. you all know how it is when you struggle with something and get too close to the trees to see the forest. anyway thanks to everyone for being your normally brutally honest selves. cheers. :-D [/edit]

        Fight Big Government:
        http://obamacareclassaction.com/
        http://obamacaretruth.org/

        modified on Friday, May 7, 2010 1:08 AM

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        Marc Clifton
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        ahmed zahmed wrote:

        Whoever thought that was a valid result, is cracked

        Well duh, it's supposed to be different, you're one who's cracked! Why don't you read up on value vs. reference comparisons. Marc

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        • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

          obviously, my statement was an opinion. but, i'll deal with reality rather than my wishfulness.

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          Marc Clifton
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          ahmed zahmed wrote:

          my statement was an opinion

          No, your statement is not an opinion, it is a falsehood. Much like the return of your two object comparison, hahaha. Marc

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            ahmed zahmed wrote:

            my statement was an opinion

            No, your statement is not an opinion, it is a falsehood. Much like the return of your two object comparison, hahaha. Marc

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            TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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            nice. hope you feel good about yourself.

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            • L Luc Pattyn

              ahmed zahmed wrote:

              since only primitives get boxed

              only value types get boxed, i.e. when an object is required. I wouldn't call a struct primitive. :)

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              TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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              yes, true enough. still in the context where i'm dealing with these boxed "value types" the only values boxed will be primitives. but thanks for the reminder.

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              • S Scott Dorman

                I would expect it to be false. You are comparing two object instances for reference equality, and clearly one is not in the same memory location as two.

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                TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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                yes, a distinction i forgot in my frustration. thanks for the refresher.

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                • D Dave Kreskowiak

                  Of course it's false! You just compared the references of two OBJECTS, not two values. It seems that you're the one who's "cracked".

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                  TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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                  well, you know how it is, i'm sure when you're doing something all day long and your brain gets fried. yep, i was the one cracked, for sure.

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                  • M Marc Clifton

                    ahmed zahmed wrote:

                    Whoever thought that was a valid result, is cracked

                    Well duh, it's supposed to be different, you're one who's cracked! Why don't you read up on value vs. reference comparisons. Marc

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                    TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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                    lol, yep you are right. that's me, the cracked one.

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                    • S Scott Dorman

                      ahmed zahmed wrote:

                      One would expect that the comparators of the boxed values would be used. so, the result would be true, as I initially expected.

                      Why do you think these are being boxed? You are clearly assigning values to an object instance. This doesn't result in any boxing operations.

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                      TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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                      ok, perhaps I'm misunderstanding something, but aren't value types boxed when assigned to an object? or passed as a parameter to a function whose parameter type is object?

                      Fight Big Government:
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                      • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

                        ok, this is not a programming question. It's a rant! given,

                        object one = 0;
                        object two = 0;
                        bool same = one == two;

                        what would you expect the value of same to be? WRONG! it's false! Whoever thought that was a valid result, is cracked!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: [edit] so, after going home and resting my brain a bit. it seems as though i'm the one that was cracked. thanks for the refresher course everyone. it is of course doing a reference comparison. which is correct. you all know how it is when you struggle with something and get too close to the trees to see the forest. anyway thanks to everyone for being your normally brutally honest selves. cheers. :-D [/edit]

                        Fight Big Government:
                        http://obamacareclassaction.com/
                        http://obamacaretruth.org/

                        modified on Friday, May 7, 2010 1:08 AM

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                        ahmed zahmed wrote:

                        so, after going home and resting my brain a bit. it seems as though i'm the one that was cracked. thanks for the refresher course everyone. it is of course doing a reference comparison. which is correct. you all know how it is when you struggle with something and get too close to the trees to see the forest. anyway thanks to everyone for being your normally brutally honest selves. cheers.

                        When was the last time you took a vacation? This happens to me when I've not taken a vacation for too long......

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                        • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

                          ok, this is not a programming question. It's a rant! given,

                          object one = 0;
                          object two = 0;
                          bool same = one == two;

                          what would you expect the value of same to be? WRONG! it's false! Whoever thought that was a valid result, is cracked!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: [edit] so, after going home and resting my brain a bit. it seems as though i'm the one that was cracked. thanks for the refresher course everyone. it is of course doing a reference comparison. which is correct. you all know how it is when you struggle with something and get too close to the trees to see the forest. anyway thanks to everyone for being your normally brutally honest selves. cheers. :-D [/edit]

                          Fight Big Government:
                          http://obamacareclassaction.com/
                          http://obamacaretruth.org/

                          modified on Friday, May 7, 2010 1:08 AM

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                          NormDroid
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                          Object comparison, answer is false.

                          Two heads are better than one.

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                          • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

                            ok, this is not a programming question. It's a rant! given,

                            object one = 0;
                            object two = 0;
                            bool same = one == two;

                            what would you expect the value of same to be? WRONG! it's false! Whoever thought that was a valid result, is cracked!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: [edit] so, after going home and resting my brain a bit. it seems as though i'm the one that was cracked. thanks for the refresher course everyone. it is of course doing a reference comparison. which is correct. you all know how it is when you struggle with something and get too close to the trees to see the forest. anyway thanks to everyone for being your normally brutally honest selves. cheers. :-D [/edit]

                            Fight Big Government:
                            http://obamacareclassaction.com/
                            http://obamacaretruth.org/

                            modified on Friday, May 7, 2010 1:08 AM

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                            CPallini
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                            You remember me Java newbies using the == operator with strings... :rolleyes:

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                            • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

                              ok, this is not a programming question. It's a rant! given,

                              object one = 0;
                              object two = 0;
                              bool same = one == two;

                              what would you expect the value of same to be? WRONG! it's false! Whoever thought that was a valid result, is cracked!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: [edit] so, after going home and resting my brain a bit. it seems as though i'm the one that was cracked. thanks for the refresher course everyone. it is of course doing a reference comparison. which is correct. you all know how it is when you struggle with something and get too close to the trees to see the forest. anyway thanks to everyone for being your normally brutally honest selves. cheers. :-D [/edit]

                              Fight Big Government:
                              http://obamacareclassaction.com/
                              http://obamacaretruth.org/

                              modified on Friday, May 7, 2010 1:08 AM

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                              CurtainDog
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                              The deeper question is why does auto boxing not return the same object.

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                              • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

                                ok, this is not a programming question. It's a rant! given,

                                object one = 0;
                                object two = 0;
                                bool same = one == two;

                                what would you expect the value of same to be? WRONG! it's false! Whoever thought that was a valid result, is cracked!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: [edit] so, after going home and resting my brain a bit. it seems as though i'm the one that was cracked. thanks for the refresher course everyone. it is of course doing a reference comparison. which is correct. you all know how it is when you struggle with something and get too close to the trees to see the forest. anyway thanks to everyone for being your normally brutally honest selves. cheers. :-D [/edit]

                                Fight Big Government:
                                http://obamacareclassaction.com/
                                http://obamacaretruth.org/

                                modified on Friday, May 7, 2010 1:08 AM

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                                Pete Appleton
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                                void* one = 0; void* two = 0; BOOL same = (one == two); // false - the lvalues of one and two are different BOOL sameValue = (*one == *two); // true - the rvalues are the same *one = 1; *two = 2; same = (one == two); // false - the lvalues are different sameValue = (*one == *two); // false - the rvalues are different now There's a reason why C# is called a C-based language... you may wish to brush up on your knowledge of pointers...

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                                • L Lost User

                                  ahmed zahmed wrote:

                                  perhaps, it got optimized away.

                                  I very much doubt it. The C# compiler only seems to do trivial constant folding (without using commutativity etc) and some limited dead code elimination (after an unconditional return etc) The JIT compiler does the rest (which is not a lot, either) If it changes the result it is not an "optimization" but a bug. And, this was a Debug build, as can easily be seen. Here is the same code compiled in Release mode.

                                  .locals init (
                                      \[0\] object x,
                                      \[1\] object y)
                                  L\_0000: ldc.i4.0 
                                  L\_0001: box int32
                                  L\_0006: stloc.0 
                                  L\_0007: ldc.i4.0 
                                  L\_0008: box int32
                                  L\_000d: stloc.1 
                                  L\_000e: ldloc.0 
                                  L\_000f: ldloc.1 
                                  L\_0010: ceq 
                                  L\_0012: call void \[mscorlib\]System.Console::WriteLine(bool)
                                  L\_0017: ret
                                  
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                                  I'm new to c#, can anyone tell me how i can generate such a list file or at least how to see that code, tried a lot never succeeded to obtain it.

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                                  • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

                                    ok, this is not a programming question. It's a rant! given,

                                    object one = 0;
                                    object two = 0;
                                    bool same = one == two;

                                    what would you expect the value of same to be? WRONG! it's false! Whoever thought that was a valid result, is cracked!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: [edit] so, after going home and resting my brain a bit. it seems as though i'm the one that was cracked. thanks for the refresher course everyone. it is of course doing a reference comparison. which is correct. you all know how it is when you struggle with something and get too close to the trees to see the forest. anyway thanks to everyone for being your normally brutally honest selves. cheers. :-D [/edit]

                                    Fight Big Government:
                                    http://obamacareclassaction.com/
                                    http://obamacaretruth.org/

                                    modified on Friday, May 7, 2010 1:08 AM

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                                    you are perhaps stil in school

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                                      The deeper question is why does auto boxing not return the same object.

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                                      Because keeping all 2^32 possible integers around until they are (maybe) reused would waste up to 48 GB of RAM (or 96 GB on 64-bit systems, as the overhead of objects is higher there). And I don't really want the Java behavior where all integers between -128 and 127 return the same object, but all other integers don't.

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                                      • T TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

                                        harold aptroot wrote:

                                        doing things like that

                                        not sure what you mean. The arrayList.Contains "failing" or my argument that == and Equals should be the same?

                                        harold aptroot wrote:

                                        iskov substitution principle

                                        Don't know what that is I'll have to look it up.

                                        harold aptroot wrote:

                                        almost 2am

                                        go get some sleep. and dream beautiful dreams.

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                                        Ok well if you would make == and Equals the same, either you would have to violate the "NaN == NaN is false" rule by saying that both == and Equals return true for two NaN's (potentially messing up peoples floating point maths, causing extra conversion problems between C# and other languages and reducing performance for floating point equality comparisons), or you would cause mayhem by allowing a case where a.Equals(a) is false (namely in the case that a is NaN) which causes unexpected results such as being unable to remove a NaN from a collection except by index (but you can't really get that index, either, except with some custom code that checks whether any element is unequal to itself) That "mayhem" can be "solved" by not using Equals like that. But then Equals has become essentially useless, since you can never count on its result having the same meaning - who knows maybe someone will throw in a NaN (maybe even on accident) and break your code.

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                                        • E espartano

                                          I'm new to c#, can anyone tell me how i can generate such a list file or at least how to see that code, tried a lot never succeeded to obtain it.

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                                          Lost User
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                                          You can use ildasm, or the .NET Reflector (switch to IL view), and there are some more ways but these are the easiest.

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