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Re: default equals function?

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From rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com>
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Subject Re: default equals function?
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:12:06 -0700 (PDT), bob smith
<bob@coolfone.comze.com> wrote:

>The equals method for class Object implements the most discriminating 
>possible equivalence relation on objects; that is, for any non-null 
>reference values x and y, this method returns true if and only if 
>x and y refer to the same object (x == y has the value true).
Correct.  What do you think that means in practice for your Kern_Pair
class?

As a minor point, the Java naming convention does not have underscores
in class names: KernPair would be the expected name.  Kern_Pair looks
more like C++ than Java.

rossum

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default equals function? bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-08-09 14:58 -0700
  Re: default equals function? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-08-09 18:11 -0400
    Re: default equals function? bob smith <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-08-10 07:12 -0700
      Re: default equals function? rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2012-08-10 16:47 +0100
      Re: default equals function? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-08-10 12:29 -0400
  Re: default equals function? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-08-09 18:22 -0400
    Re: default equals function? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-08-10 13:43 -0400

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