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Re: The behavior of "equals" method of Arrays.asList() implementation

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On 6/28/2011 6:18 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Alex J<vstrength@gmail.com>  writes:
>> So the first question is: whether it is safe to use equals for *all*
>> the JDK's collections?
>
>    What is »safe« supposed to mean in this case?
>
>    The »equals« methods of the collections behave
>    as documented in their Java SE docs, just like
>    every other collection method does.

The obvious answer.

>> The second question is whether JVM adds "hidden" implementation in
>> certain places
>
>    The compiler sometimes adds constructors so that
>    the implementation behaves as specified in the
>    JLS, but never »equals« methods.

The compiler is not the JVM, but your interpretation may
be correct that his question included compiler.

Arne

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