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Operators: Equality, Inequality, and Comparison

Operators: Equality, Inequality, and Comparison

Explore structural and referential equality and understand the use of comparison operators.

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The equality and inequality operators

In Kotlin, there are two types of equality:

  • Structural equality: It is checked with the equals method or the == operator (and its negated counterpart !=).

    • The statemenet a == b translates to a.equals(b) when a is not nullable. Otherwise, ...