Re: Casting an object in equals Java 5
Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
In my Java classes they told me not to do that at all.
Either make these classes (or equals() itself, along with
hashCode()) final or abstract.
Eric Sosman wrote:
Maybe I've misunderstood, but this seems crazy. Did they
really tell you that non-final classes should not implement
equals()? That would seem to imply that they also should
not implement hashCode(), and thus be only marginally usable
in HashMaps and the like. No, I *must* have misunderstood you.
Joshua Bloch has two items in /Effective Java/ relating to 'equals()' (#8 and
#9), and does not suggest that only final classes should implement it. He
does recommend to "Design and document for inheritance or else prohibit it"
(Item 17), which Andreas's instructors might have twisted.
There is no percentage in making 'equals()' or 'hashCode()' abstract for any
class. They're implemented concretely in 'Object', after all, and surely that
class was designed for inheritance.
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