Re: Merging Linked Lists

From:
John Ersatznom <j.ersatz@nowhere.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:48:11 -0500
Message-ID:
<emgk6t$jtu$1@aioe.org>
John Ersatznom wrote:

public class PositionalHolder<T>
        implements Comparable<PositionalHolder<T>> {
    public double position;
    public T object;
    public PositionalHolder (T object, double position) {
        this.object = object;
        this.position = position;
    }
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public void equals (Object x) {
        return (x == this)
            ||(x instanceof PositionalHolder
             && ((PositionalHolder)x).position
            == position);
    }
    public int hashCode () {
        return Double.valueOf(position).hashCode();
    }
    public int compareTo (PositionalHolder<T> other) {
        return (position < other.position)
            ?-1:((position > other.position)?1:0);
    }
    public void putBetween (PositionalHolder<T> x,
            PositionalHolder<T> y) {
        // Convenience method.
        position = (x.position + y.position)/2;
    }
}


Naturally, it was right after posting this that I came up with the
ArbitraryHolder, which holds one object it "holds" and a second whose
equals(), hashCode(), and compareTo() get used. And can be constructed
with an explicit comparator to use. On either the "held" object or the
object used to define the "equals" and "hashCode" behavior...

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