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		dtech on April 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Write an Equality Method in Java (2009) This is a pretty bad comparison, == doesn't check equality for objects in Javascript and doesn't promise to. Similar to how Java's == doesn't.

cmeacham98 on April 30, 2021 [–]

According to MDN it does[1]:

> The equality operator (==) checks whether its two operands are equal, returning a Boolean result.

Additionally, the ECMAScript spec calls it the "equality operator" (although admittedly it spells out a 14 step list[2] of how to do this).

1: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

2: https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-abstract-equality-comparison

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