Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.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: hashCode Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:34:28 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <563f186a-edb3-4311-ae48-3af7decfce2c@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 16:34:33 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ffb8f7085759b339c1002252b48331a4"; logging-data="2429"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/USmq+v5nruFaXJYlBiG8i" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <563f186a-edb3-4311-ae48-3af7decfce2c@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:x0nBB2Eqy8SAKjLI1gUKSWbrIIY= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:17580 On 8/10/2012 11:47 AM, bob smith wrote: > Is it always technically correct to override the hashCode function like so: > > @Override > public int hashCode() { > return 1; > } > > Would it be potentially better if that was Object's implementation? Define "better." -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid