Don’t need the Ord
instance for equality, just Eq
is sufficient. Ord
is for inequalities.
The point of the post is that most mainstream languages don’t provide a way to automatically derive point-wise equality by value, even though it’s pervasively used everywhere. They instead need IDEs to generate the boilerplate rather than the compiler handling it.
My wife and I think it is. I took her last name since it meant more to her.