Recursively comparing

[Archie Cobbs]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 10:48 AM John Bossons <jbossons at gmail.com> wrote:

> Where the set of field values stored for a value object field contains a
> field that is in turn a value object, this recursive definition would imply
> a recursive application of == to the set of field values stored for that
> object, would it not? Which sounds awfully close to a deep equals test for
> value object fields (but not identity fields).
>

That's a good point... so a simple (for Java developers) way to explain the
behavior might be: "Deep equals" for value objects and "== equals" for
non-value objects.

-Archie

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Archie L. Cobbs
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