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Re: "equals" - a bad name?

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13 Aug 2016 23:25:20 GMT, Stefan Ram:

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Heh.

>    »a == b« and »a.equals( b )« have two different meanings
>    in Java. Fairly enough, they are written in different
>    ways in Java.
>
>    But what about pronunciation? I believe that »a == b«
>    sometimes is pronunced »a equals b«. And »a.equals( b )«
>    would be pronounced »a equals b«, too! So now, in talks or
>    on the phone (possibly, when thinking in words), the
>    distinction is lost!
>
>    Therefore, »equals« might better have been another name,
>    like, for example, »equivalent«. So, we would have »a == b«
>    and »a.equivalent( b )«.

I've seen elsewhere »a == b« transcribed as »a is same as b« as in 
»a is the same object as b«, or more general »a is the same value as 
b« which makes sense for reference values in Java.

-- 
Stanimir

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Re: "equals" - a bad name? Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2016-08-16 23:33 +0300
  [OT] Re: "equals" - a bad name? Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2016-08-17 07:16 +0300
    Re: [OT] Re: "equals" - a bad name? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-08-17 05:04 -0700

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