Subject: bug#63671: Add function to test equality of hash tables

From: Joseph Turner <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 19:44:29 -0700

Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]> writes:

> 24 maj 2023 kl. 19.27 skrev Joseph Turner <[email-masked]>:
>
>> Would extending `equal' to handle hash tables be generally useful?
>
> It would, but doing so would be very risky at this point since it would change long-standing semantics.
>
> We could make an augmented version of `equal` but what we really want is one that works for user-defined types (see Ihor's reference to a previous discussion).
>
> Anyway, here's an old patch I had lying around, in case we decide that we do need a shoddy equality predicate for hash tables only.

Thank you for the references, Ihor and Mattias! Since this is a
duplicate of Ihor's thread, my report should probably be closed.

How do I close this report?

Joseph