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  • thanks for taking the time to answer. This would be a great answer on the other questions that I linked to. Unfortunately, this is not suitable for this question. I'll update the OP with clarifications based on the comments. I'm looking more for the use cases where a language-user would want to have the false-negatives when comparing strings. The language provides this feature as consistency, now I would like us to go a step further. Perhaps thinking of this from the new-language designer, is it needed? (unfortunately, no lang-design.SE) Commented Oct 19, 2015 at 20:52
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    @Anonsage its not a false negative. They aren't the same object. That is all it is saying. I must also point out that in Java 8, new String("foo") == new String("foo") may be true (see String Deduplication). Commented Oct 19, 2015 at 20:52
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    As to language design, CS.SE advertises that it may be on topic there. Commented Oct 19, 2015 at 20:58
  • ooh, thank you! I will post my future lang-design questions there. :) And, yeah, unfortunately 'false-negative' isn't the most accurate way to describe my question and what I'm looking for.. I need to write more words so people don't have to guess what I'm trying to say. Commented Oct 19, 2015 at 21:03
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    "Consistency within the language" also helps with generics Commented Oct 20, 2015 at 14:22