"-language:strictEquality" causes debugger to fail running code in a live session

[Pedro H. R. Moy]

The console available for running arbitrarty code with objects within scope fails to run code when the compiler flag "-language:strictEquality" is turned on.

Upon removing the flag, I am able to run arbitrary code normally.

Using Scala 3.3.0 and sbt 1.9.1.

Thank you.

Pedro

[Tomasz Godzik]

Some additional background from me:

I was wondering if we could filter out some settings that we know will not influence the result of the evaluation in a negative way. It's really not necessary to follow the exact same rules when debugging and we might be a bit too strict here.

[adpi2]

Thanks for the report!

I was wondering if we could filter out some settings that we know will not influence the result of the evaluation in a negative way. It's really not necessary to follow the exact same rules when debugging and we might be a bit too strict here.

Sure, we did that already for some options and we can also filter -language:strictEquality. We "just" need to make sure that removing it does not change the semantic of the existing code nor prevents it from compiling.

[Pedro H. R. Moy]

Btw, it's worth noting that the code fails because of code like this if (foo == null) then...

This can be solved in code as well by simply looking for equality checks and add the following

@targetName("...") given CanEqual[..., Null] = CanEqual.derived

With or without -language:strictEquality, the code will work.