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by Eric Lippert via Fabulous Adventures In Coding on 9/28/2009 4:23:00 PM
Here's a curious program fragment:
object obj = "Int32";string str1 = "Int32";string str2 = typeof(int).Name;Console.WriteLine(obj == str1); // trueConsole.WriteLine(str1 == str2); // trueConsole.WriteLine(obj == str2); // false !?
Surely if A equals B, and B equals C, then A equals C; that's the transitive property of equality. It appears to have been thoroughly violated here.
Well, first off, though the transitive property is desirable, this is just one of many situations in which equality is
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