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Why don maps allow structs and arrays as keys?

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Why don maps allow structs and arrays as keys?

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Map lookup requires an equality operator, which structs and arrays do not implement. They don’t implement equality because equality is not well defined on such types; there are multiple considerations involving shallow vs. deep comparison, pointer vs. value comparison, how to deal with recursive structures, and so on. We may revisit this issue—and implementing equality for structs and arrays will not invalidate any existing programs—but without a clear idea of what equality of structs and arrays should mean, it was simpler to leave it out for now.

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