[records] equality on float / double components

Brian Goetz brian.goetz at oracle.com
Wed Dec 6 18:07:42 UTC 2017


It's time to play everyone's favorite game show, "What about NaN".

If we have a record:

     record Foo(float f);

We would like Object.equals() to be reflexive, symmetric, and 
transitive.  But if we define equals() in the obvious way (delegating to 
float==), then `new Foo(Float.NaN`) would not be equal to itself.

If we delegate instead to `Float.compare(this.f, that.f)`, the NaN 
problem goes away (though comparison becomes modestly more expensive), 
but now +0 and -0 are distinguished (== treats them the same.)



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