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Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality

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On Nov 9, 10:11 pm, Eric Sosman <esos...@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:

> Seems odd: Why should Fido rather than Rover or Wossname be the
> sole representative Cocker Spaniel?

Just cuz.

Silly example: Father-in-law is going hunting. He has a kennel full of
dogs. Wants a hound and a bird dog. Doesn't care which exact ones.

> Two avenues of attack seem plausible.  One, as you mention, is to
> use a helper class to designate the chosen "identity" attributes.  I
> think I'd prefer to make it an inner class rather than a wrapper class,
> but maybe that just means I'm still too hung up on your dogs and breeds.

Hmmm. This is interesting. How would it work? So, I'd have an inner
class for each type of equality I need, basically exposing its parent
and providing the desired equals()? Think I'll play around with that
idea.


>      The other approach is to implement your own BreedSet that uses
> breedEquals() and breedHashCode() instead of the usual methods (and,
> of course, documents that fact in large red letters).  But this feels
> an awful lot like the first step down a slippery slope, one that may
> find you implementing umpty-leven specialized variations of Set and
> Map and regretting the original choice ...

Yes, as I said in my reply to Owen (which I think I accidentally sent
as reply to author), if possible I'd rather use smarter people's work
than write my own implementation. His TreeSet/TrreMap proposal is my
favourite solution so far.


Cheers,

Sean

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equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Sean Mitchell <sean@mitchwood.com> - 2011-11-09 18:33 -0800
  Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Owen Jacobson <angrybaldguy@gmail.com> - 2011-11-09 22:10 -0500
    Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2011-11-10 04:42 +0000
  Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-09 22:11 -0500
    Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-09 22:43 -0800
      Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Sean Mitchell <sean@mitchwood.com> - 2011-11-10 06:33 -0800
        Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-10 07:21 -0800
          Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Sean Mitchell <sean@mitchwood.com> - 2011-11-10 07:29 -0800
            Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-10 10:27 -0800
            Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-10 20:58 -0500
              Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-10 19:07 -0800
                Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-10 23:24 -0500
                Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-10 20:55 -0800
              Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Sean Mitchell <sean@mitchwood.com> - 2011-11-11 10:27 -0800
                Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-11 14:21 -0800
    Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Sean Mitchell <sean@mitchwood.com> - 2011-11-10 06:31 -0800
      Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-10 11:27 -0800
  Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-10 16:01 -0800
  Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-11 09:08 +0000
    Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-11 07:27 -0800
      Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Sean Mitchell <sean@mitchwood.com> - 2011-11-11 10:28 -0800
        Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-11 14:22 -0800
          Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-11 15:19 -0800
          Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-13 21:18 -0800
            Re: equals(), Sets, Maps, and degrees of equality Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-16 09:15 -0800

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