Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Boojum Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Did the sort do anything? Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 07:19:21 -0400 Organization: Red Queen's Court Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <9303hcFq0nU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: Ak7xW7rxcb3Y6UXwoZfR1w.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4247 On 17/05/2011 7:19 AM, Lew wrote: > Patricia Shanahan wrote: >> is that System.identityHashCode(x) returns the value that would be >> returned by >> x.hashCode() if the object referenced by x had inherited the Object >> implementation of hashCode, regardless of whether x in fact uses an >> overridden hash code. > > In other words, Laramie, 'x.hashCode()' can be different from > 'Object#hashCode()'. Who is "Laramie", Lew? There is nobody in this newsgroup using that alias.