array equality

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Paul Phillips wrote:
> One of the more interesting incongruities in the new lib:
>
> scala> Array(1) == Array(1)
> res0: Boolean = false
>
> scala> Array(1) equals Array(1)
> res1: Boolean = true
>
> I haven't track that down, but I'm guessing the first goes straight to
> java's equality for arrays and the second uses the equals override in
> Iterable or similar.  I see comments to the effect that array equality
> semantics still needs to be decided.  What are we thinking these days?
>
> Maybe there's still time to do something about arrays for 2.8 - they
> have quite a disproportionate standing in the bug database.
>
Yes, that's on the todo list. The intention is that Array(1) ==
Array(1) should return true. Something in erasure needs to be twiddled
to make that happen, I guess.
I am planning to have a look at this soon.

Cheers