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From: Gheerax IV <gheerax.4@gmail.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Did the sort do anything?
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 06:58:56 +0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 17 May 2011 09:11:19 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> In message <noidndppmuNYrEzQnZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d@earthlink.com>, Patricia
> Shanahan wrote:
> 
>> System.identityHashCode(x) does not necessarily return the same as
>> x.hashCode() ...
> 
> It says it does
> <http://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/
System.html#identityHashCode%28java.lang.Object%29>:
> 
>     The hash code returned is the same one that would be returned by the
>     method java.lang.Object.hashCode(), whether or not the object's
>     class has overridden hashCode().
> 
>>> “Distinct” would presumably mean “not equal”.
>> 
>> It means "not the same object".
> 
> It means “can be distinguished”. That is the literal meaning of
> “distinct”.
> 
>> For example, equality for Integer is based only on the numeric value of
>> the integer the object represents.
> 
> Which brings us back to the point I made before, about whether the sort
> key is computed from the entire value or not.

Are you Twisted?