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To reproduce:
1. Install KS Power.
2. Start a new game, place KS Power's Oil Boiler. Observe that it has three distinct fluidboxes.
3. Execute command: Observe that it outputs true, thus the game claims those two fluidbox prototypes are equal when they obviously aren't.

Why this is a bug:
But you may look at those prototypes and object "They look the same, it's just comparing them field-by-field!". Except it's only some fields. Connections are different, don't count. Filters are different! Nope, irrelevant. It neither indicates that it's the same fluidbox prototype nor does it indicate that the two prototypes are interchangeable.

Expected behavior:
Equality comparison between two LuaObjects indicates that they both refer to the same underlying object. Or, if not that, at least some sane and meaningful result.

Thanks for the report. This issue was already fixed "by accident" for 2.0 by other changes so i made a test for this to make sure it will stay fixed.

Core of the issue is that LuaFluidBoxPrototype equals operator checks if that lua object is binding to the same (EntityID, index) which by reading LuaFluidBoxPrototype::entity and LuaFluidBoxPrototype::index you can verify is equal, however it completly skips the fact that LuaFluidBoxPrototype has additional field which selects if the LuaFluidBoxPrototype points at the fluid box prototype of the energy source. One of those LuaFluidBoxPrototypes points at EnergySource's fluid box prototype while the other points at Entity's fluid box prototype, both being at the same index.

Anyway, fixed for 2.0.

I appreciate the explanation. Looking forward to 2.0.