mozilla/rust — pull request #13102 by huonw (2014-03-23 12:16:59+00:00)
Title: std: remove the `equals` method from `TotalEq`.

std: remove the `equals` method from `TotalEq`.

`TotalEq` is now just an assertion about the `Eq` impl of a
type (i.e. `==` is a total equality if a type implements `TotalEq`) so
the extra method is just confusing.

Also, a new method magically appeared as a hack to allow deriving to
assert that the contents of a struct/enum are also TotalEq, because the
deriving infrastructure makes it very hard to do anything but create a
trait method. (You didn't hear about this horrible work-around from me
:(.)