equality – Tarik Billa

Custom equality in swift objects preserving compatibility with legacy Objective-C code

June 6, 2023 by Tarik

Yes, you need to override isEqual (and hash) to make your objects fully Objective-C compatible. Here’s a Playground-ready example for the syntax: import Foundation class MyClass: NSObject { var value = 5 override func isEqual(object: AnyObject?) -> Bool { if let object = object as? MyClass { return value == object.value } else { return … Read more

jQuery object equality

November 15, 2022 by Tarik

Since jQuery 1.6, you can use .is. Below is the answer from over a year ago… var a = $(‘#foo’); var b = a; if (a.is(b)) { // the same object! } If you want to see if two variables are actually the same object, eg: var a = $(‘#foo’); var b = a; …then … Read more