Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joshua Cranmer Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Need clarification on Object.equals. Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:58:07 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <909022a2-ead4-45e6-9f43-79b5013e04ee@googlegroups.com> <67da22eb-42d8-40bf-b172-9aac1eef268e@googlegroups.com> <50d13174$0$283$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <-vKdnV0vgsl4CUzNnZ2dnUVZ8sOdnZ2d@bt.com> <50d1ca29$0$282$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <50d1caa3$0$282$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:58:12 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="5a9707252ba5efb9bece56d1f4656a90"; logging-data="11492"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18f2hoAur4tepJhuqnrQh/F77LAYh2Bj50=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:PSh88y7gqhXG8uMJ5xJ0bykcQKY= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:20529 On 12/19/2012 8:36 AM, lipska the kat wrote: > On 19/12/12 14:09, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> On 12/19/2012 9:07 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>> On 12/19/2012 6:22 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: >>>> On 12/19/2012 2:20 AM, lipska the kat wrote: >>>> ... > > [snip] > >> >> My point is that while newbies do have a "allowed to post >> stupid questions" card, > > Your arrogance is almost beyond belief. Listen to yourself > You really do think that you are in some way qualified to pass judgment > on what is a stupid question and what isn't. I would suggest that you finish reading entire posts before starting yelling matches, for if you had finished the sentence (assuming basic fluency in reading comprehension), you would have learned that Arne was opining that the criterion for what should be considered socially acceptable by this newsgroup isn't the quality of the question but rather by whether or not it is insulting. Also note that there was in no way any attempt to delineate specifically what class of questions corresponds to "stupid questions," which is apt because the entire point of the post was to postulate the nonimportance of such a class. Unless you were trying to be ironic. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth