dotnet/roslyn

In the VB sources, prefer the "Is" operator rather than Object.ReferenceEquals

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#2,150 opened on Apr 21, 2015

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Description

We generate slightly better code for the VB Is operator than we do for invocations of Object.ReferenceEquals. It would be nice to replaces uses of the latter with uses of the former.

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Find all occurrences of Object.ReferenceEquals in VB source files under the repository, replace them with the 'Is' operator, and run the existing tests to verify correctness.
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csharp
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compilers
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VB.NETGit
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