EG meeting, 2021-11-17

[Dan Smith]

EG Zoom meeting today at 5pm UTC (9am PDT, 12pm EDT).

Lots of traffic this time, we can have follow up discussions wherever there's interest. Potential topics:

"Consolidating the user model": followup discussions homed in on how we model primitive values—whether they're reference-less objects or some other "value" entity, and how they interact with reference types

"Equality operator for identityless classes": Kevin is concerned that the new == operator is an attractive nuisance, because it's sometimes, but not always, equivalent to 'equals'

"identityless objects and the type hierarchy": discussed how the IdentityObject/PrimitiveObject interfaces are used in the "Consolidating the user model" world

"Consequences of null for flattenable representations": John described strategies for encoding nulls where object references are flattened