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[–] frezik@midwest.social 46 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The short answer is that your language needs === when it fucked up the semantics of ==, but it's also too popular and you can't fix it without breaking half the web.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Or when it is something like Prolog, where equality is inherently a messy and complex concept.