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by groovy2shoes 4706 days ago

    > most OO languages allow two objects that represent the 
    > same states to have distinct identities, even if 
    > compare-by-value claims they're equal.
You can do this in languages that offer only compare-by-value by attaching a unique ID to every object. Of course, you may have to write your own equality relation if you want compare-by-value semantics in addition to compare-by-identity semantics.