RFR 8141409 Arrays.equals accepting a Comparator

[Paul Sandoz]

Hi,

I have made a retreat on this just to add the two missing equals methods:

  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8141409-Arrays-equals-comparator/webrev/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8141409-Arrays-equals-comparator/webrev/>

I propose to revisit the overall null-handling semantics, especially for Comparable[] accepting methods, at a later date.

Paul.

> On 4 Nov 2015, at 15:32, Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Please review:
> 
>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8141409-Arrays-equals-comparator/webrev/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8141409-Arrays-equals-comparator/webrev/>
>  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141409 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141409>
> 
> This builds on (the already reviewed):
> 
>  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8033148 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8033148>
>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8033148-Arrays-lexico-compare/webrev/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/JDK-8033148-Arrays-lexico-compare/webrev/>
> 
> and adds yet more methods to Arrays, only two this time though, to fill out the missing gaps related to array equality with a comparator.
> 
> In addition i added an Objects.compare method, which simplifies the implementations of some object-bearing methods.
> 
> Both additions simplify the specification some object-bearing methods.
> 
> Paul.