RFR: 7057785 : (xs) Add note to hashCode() that support for self referential is optional

[Guy Steele]

On Aug 28, 2013, at 6:13 PM, Mike Duigou <mike.duigou at oracle.com> wrote:

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> On Aug 28 2013, at 11:48 , Martin Buchholz wrote:
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>> This isn't just about hashCode - I'm not sure why you are singling it out.  What about toString?
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> A reasonable point. The bug reports are just about as common for toString() being "broken" for self-referential collections.

<oldfogey>
*ahem* Y'know, Common Lisp had a good solution for printing self-referential structures (by a user-extensible print function) back in 1984.

It leaned on the solution that had been provided in Interlisp in 1974.  On a machine with one megabyte of main memory and a speed of 1 MIPS.

This is not rocket science.
</oldfogey>