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voidUpdate 2 hours ago

I can see the first one making sense, but why would you need a representation of equality other than "yes, these are equal" and "no, these are not equal"?

agons 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The first use case that comes to mind is if you want a DSL to build expressions that are evaluated later in some different context e.g. when using `polars`:

```python df.filter( pl.col("foo") == pl.col("bar"), ) ```

Sqlalchemy does something equivalent too, and I'm sure there are many others.

datsci_est_2015 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well personally I’m not a fan of turning everything into an object, but if you have properties or methods that exist upon the concept of Equality you might want to encode directly onto a class. Maybe in a domain where “Equality” is an important concept, like mathematics or even something like accounting.

Could enable a different interface into approximate equality for floating point numbers: Equality.approximate(iota: float) -> bool