Overriding the == operator, like in Java/Lua/Python/whatever.

[Sebastian McKenzie]

http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/value-objects2

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Caitlin Potter <caitpotter88 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Unfortunately, there's no "real" way to do this as of yet, short of abusing ToPrimitive in certain cases, far from ideal.
> I'm sure someone must have proposed it at some point, but perhaps not. In the mean time, it might be a nice feature of a compile-to-js language like coffeescript or typescript to experiment with
>> On Jan 3, 2015, at 8:52 PM, Soni L. <fakedme+es at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I've been looking and looking and looking and I couldn't find a way to override == to make 2 different instances of MyPoint compare == if they have the same coordinates. (I guess this also applies to String objects and stuff but I haven't tested that)
>> 
>> So how do I do this?
>> 
>> (PS: yes, I know, Java has an .equals method, not overridable ==, but it's basically the same thing)
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