RFR: 8324718: Add a static function to java.util.Objects to simplify object equality checks [v6]

[David Alayachew]

On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 07:52:56 GMT, David Alayachew <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Adding a function to Objects in order to facilitate equality checking and enhance readability. You simply specify the 2 objects that you want to check for equality, and then provide the functions which will be used to provide the values that we will check for equality.
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> David Alayachew has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Rather than reiterating the precondition, let's explain why the method failed

I also want to know, would your example not be classified as "brittle" for ad-hoc equality checks? If I refactor `Stuff` to change the field names or fields types, doesn't that mean that the example you have provided would NOT get a compilation error, but would fail at run time?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17603#issuecomment-1913255483