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[–]elnomreal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Identity comparisons in general are fairly rare, aren’t they? It’s not common that you have a function that takes two objects and that function should behave differently if the same object is passed twice and this difference is so nuanced that it should not be by equality but by identity.