Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: default equals function? Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:29:38 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <6d0a5330-56a8-4fe9-b820-c1931c54485d@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:29:42 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ffb8f7085759b339c1002252b48331a4"; logging-data="32234"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19OeqHm8RFfhOC1XWNbLZFX" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <6d0a5330-56a8-4fe9-b820-c1931c54485d@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:QVgIx370SoACRy2AnZCTacIs0Dc= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:17579 On 8/10/2012 10:12 AM, bob smith wrote: > On Thursday, August 9, 2012 5:11:07 PM UTC-5, Eric Sosman wrote: >> On 8/9/2012 5:58 PM, bob smith wrote: >>> [...] >>> Can someone tell me how the default equals function will behave? >> [...] >> Now all you need to do is go to the Javadoc and study what >> Object's equals() will do. > > The equals method for class Object implements the most discriminating possible equivalence relation on objects; that is, for any non-null reference values x and y, this method returns true if and only if x and y refer to the same object (x == y has the value true). ... and there you have it. Any questions? -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid