On the left: Someone browsing through a huge book captioned "Implementing equality in other languages". On the right: A tiny book labelled with the Rust code `#[derive(PartialEq, Eq)]` captioned "Implementing Eq in Rust".
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago

Don't need the Ord instance for equality, just Eq is sufficient. Ord is for inequalities.

The point of the post is that most mainstream languages don't provide a way to automatically derive point-wise equality by value, even though it's pervasively used everywhere. They instead need IDEs to generate the boilerplate rather than the compiler handling it.

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