+5  A: 

Off the top of my head the only way I can see to pull this off would be to use a Dictionary object (you'd probably want to enable weak keys to avoid any side effects) and then just take the objects as you create them and use them as a key to an incrementing ID counter. Then you could simply look to see if two objects existed as a keys in the Dictionary and if so compare the values stored there.

Branden Hall  2009-08-27 19:54:02
ah, yea – that's not a bad idea. Thanks!
David Wolever  2009-08-27 20:05:02
A: 

AFAIK there is no way to get to the value that the debugger shows you at runtime.

Total shot in the dark but I think you can use the === comparison to determine if two objects are the same object (in contrast to == that compares the values of the objects). But I could be totally wrong on that.

James Ward  2009-08-27 20:11:47
It's true that '===' will compare the identity of two objects… But that won't help me much here (unless I keep a reference to every object, then…)
David Wolever  2009-08-27 20:15:33
@David: If you don't have a reference to every object than how are you accessing your objects? If you don't have references to your objects, they will be garbage collected.
Luke  2009-08-28 06:12:34
I guess that wasn't clear – there will be references to every instance *somewhere*, but there won't be "one central repository of all my instances".
David Wolever  2009-08-28 15:23:47
+3  A: 
Diney Bomfim  2010-05-28 05:53:08
hahahha Diney, that is brilliant. Good work.
David Wolever  2010-05-28 17:18:02

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