Use == for text, numeric, and byte types #773
Description
Current Situation
Currently in hooks, we use is to check whether or not two things are the same for all given values. This is not how strict equality in works in Javascript. Doing this also makes it difficult to limit effect triggers and memoized function calls.
Further, identity comparison for int will produce weird results since we can assert 1 is 1 but not assert 1000 is 1000.
Proposed Actions
Use == to compare the following types in hooks:
- int
- float
- complex
- str
- bytes
- bytearray
- memoryview
We'll need to implement a strictly_equal function since we'll need this comparison behavior in a lot of places through hooks.py