Nested structs fails

[cedeerwe]

Hey, I have stumbled upon the following problem in Julia 1.1, here is a MWE:

julia> using Parameters

julia> @with_kw struct Foo; foo; end
Foo

julia> Foo(foo=2)
Foo
  foo: Int64 2

julia> Foo(foo=Foo(foo=2))
Foo
  foo: Int64 2

julia> Foo(foo=2) == Foo(foo=Foo(foo=2))
true

julia> Foo(2) == Foo(Foo(2))
true

Using standard structs

julia> struct Bar; bar; end

julia> Bar(2) == Bar(Bar(2))
false

Using Base.@kwdef in Julia 1.1

julia> Base.@kwdef struct Baz; baz; end
Baz

julia> Baz(baz=2) == Baz(baz=Baz(baz=2))
false

julia> Baz(2) == Baz(Baz(2))
false

I have no idea why this happens, but it looks like a bug.

[mauro3]

Yes, I think this is JuliaLang/julia#29316 (comment). Note that with a two-field struct it works ok:

julia> @with_kw struct Bar; a; b; end
Bar

julia> Bar(Bar(1,1), 99).a
Bar
  a: Int64 1
  b: Int64 1

Maybe the re-construct constructor should be dropped in favor of Setfield.jl or just mutating for mutable.

[cedeerwe]

Seems to be right. It is definitely an unexpected behavior. In my use case I had something like a graph, specifying parent nodes. Having Node(parent=Node(parent=RootNode())) == Node(parent=RootNode()) is simply bamboozling. I actually switched to Base.@kwdef to remove this issue.

[mauro3]

I guess the original way I thought about Parameters is that such a type would contain lots of fields, so this did not occur to me...