xaccAccountEqual ?

[Derek Atkins]

Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> writes:

>> I thought you were working on learning to script Gnucash with Guile.
>
> In part, yes.  But I'm really trying to learn to write an introduction 
> for people who want to learn to script Gnucash with Guile.

True, and from a user perspective xaccAccountEqual() is the API way to
test whether two account objects point to the same Account.  Just
testing for acc1 == acc2 may work in some cases, and I believe that
xaccAccountEqual() does have that short-circuit in there.  But users
should use the API.

This isn't C++.  If it were then yes, we could have overridden the '=='
operator to do a deep-inspection compare if the pointers are different.
But because this is C we had to write our own API and ask users to use
it.

-derek

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