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of them, depending on various design aspects. One possible meaning of equality is that "if a equals b, then either a or b can be used interchangeably in any context without noticing any difference". But this statement does not necessarily hold, particularly when taking into account mutability together with content equality.

Location equality vs. content equality

Sometimes, particularly in object-oriented programming, the comparison raises questions of data types

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