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

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On 11/10/2011 10:29 AM, Sean Mitchell wrote:
> On Nov 10, 10:21 am, markspace<-@.>  wrote:
>
>>> Possible, but I could see a lot of concurrency issue arising. Might
>>> work well in a single threaded application.
>>
>> What?  Why?  There's no concurrency issues there.  There's no state
>> beyond what is in the Dog object.  Method call != concurrency issue.  In
>> fact it's the opposite, method calls are inherently thread safe.
>>
>> If you need concurrency, you add it to the Dog object.
>
> Maybe I don't understand what you are proposing. It sounds like you
> want a singleton wrapper, into which I stuff my Dog, before I put him
> into my Set/Map.

     I think "concurrency issues" might not be the best description,
but there are certainly drawbacks to markspace's suggestion.  Back
to your original post: You wanted a Dog whose breed (only) would
govern its membership in a Set<Dog> but whose name (only) would
matter for a Map<Dog,Owner>.  markspace's idea of endowing each Dog
with a DogComparisonStrategy wouldn't work if the same Dog instance
could be a member of the Set *and* a key in the Map: You'd need to
visit every Dog and reset its DogComparisonStrategy before doing
any operation on either the Set or the Map.  (Strictly speaking,
you'd only need to visit the Dogs that participated in the relevant
data structure -- but since it would be at best dubious to traverse
a Set or Map whose Dogs were in the wrong state you'd need a third
Collection<Dog> that would not use the DogComparisonStrategy at all.)

     The notion of making Breed and Name inner classes of Dog seems
more and more attractive:

	class Dog {
	    class Breed { ... };
	    class Name { ... };
	    private Breed breed;
	    private Name name;
	    ...
	}

The wrapper approach could also work, and would be necessary if Dog
weren't alterable:

	class Dog {
	    private String name;
	    private String breed;
	    ...
	}

	class DogByBreed {
	    private Dog dog;
	    ...
	    public int hashCode() {
	        return dog.getBreed().hashCode();
	    }
	    ...
	}

	class DogByName {
	    private Dog dog;
	    ...
	    public int hashCode() {
	        return dog.getName().hashCode();
	    }
	    ...
	}

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid

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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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