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

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On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 02:19:02 -0700 (PDT), Alex J <vstrength@gmail.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>Basically I wonder if it is safe to use equals for collections (and
>junit's assertEquals in particular which in fact results in the
>*.equals invocation).

Every object implements equals. Sometimes it amounts to == which many
not be what you want.
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The behavior of "equals" method of Arrays.asList() implementation Alex J <vstrength@gmail.com> - 2011-06-28 02:19 -0700
  Re: The behavior of "equals" method of Arrays.asList() implementation Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-06-28 07:08 -0400
    Re: The behavior of "equals" method of Arrays.asList() implementation Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-06-28 07:29 -0400
  Re: The behavior of "equals" method of Arrays.asList() implementation Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-06-28 10:04 -0700

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