Re: hashCode
On 8/27/12 4:04 PM, Arne Vajh??j wrote:
On 8/21/2012 6:43 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
Arne Vajh??j <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
We are looking at two alternatives:
A) default functions properly but good performance requires an override
B) default gives good performance but may need an override to function
properly
C) default hashCode() works perfectly well with default equals(), and
only
those with a specific requirement for equality, who thus need to
override
.equals(), anyway, also need to override hashCode() appropriately for
their specific equality-relation.
That is just B in another wording.
However you word it.
The truth is that equals/hashCode should probably be overridden
together, or together remain default.
I find it somewhat disappointing that there are Comparable/Comparator
interfaces, but no Hashable/Hasher interfaces.
As it turns out, usually equals doesn't work well with subclasses
anyway, so to have an external "equals" predicate makes for a cleaner
abstraction.
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