X-Received: by 10.66.82.164 with SMTP id j4mr378399pay.15.1355863933651; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:52:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.50.191.131 with SMTP id gy3mr1747705igc.1.1355863933585; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:52:13 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!f6no441656pbd.1!news-out.google.com!6ni51730pbd.1!nntp.google.com!kr7no10765836pbb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:52:13 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.28.149.29; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.28.149.29 References: <909022a2-ead4-45e6-9f43-79b5013e04ee@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <2cf717fd-b0f5-449b-814d-59ef7e9904c8@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Need clarification on Object.equals. From: Lew Injection-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:52:13 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:20475 ple...@com wrote: > My issue with [markspace]'s response was not the helpful suggestion to look at super classes but rather that it comes off as lecturing, and frankly rather condescending. Wow. You really are a piece of work. You come here asking people to volunteer assistance to you out of the goodness of their hearts. markspace wrote nothing at all to justify your remark. He was objective, and offered to review your code for you. He gave you advice on how to present the code so that kind volunteers can help. You respond with this garbage instead of thanks? What the hell is wrong with you? > My understanding is that equals is true if, and only if, a and b are > exactly the same object. Here they are not even the same class. That's your misunderstanding. How about you read the Java tutorials to find out what the truth is about 'equals()'? -- Lew