Re: hashCode() for Custom classes
Lew wrote:
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote:
If we have several similar classes that are going to be compared
against each other, I would probably pick a separate seed for each
class, so that instances of different classes with similar content
didn't collide as easily.
hashCode() is an aid to equals(). If you are comparing objects of
different classes, they'd better not compare equal. (Now waiting for
the storm of examples when it's absolutely necessary to use equals() or
hashCode() between instances of different classes.)
Set positively requires any two Set instances to compare equal if they
contain the same elements, regardless of class. Similarly, any two List
instances are equal if they contain the same elements in the same order.
I'm not sure it was absolutely necessary to define it that way, but it
is convenient. For example, I have unit tests for methods that return
List. Because of how List equality is defined, I can use any convenient
List implementation for the expected value.
Patricia
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