list literal gotcha and suggestion

abies at adres.pl abies at adres.pl
Fri Oct 2 01:06:56 PDT 2009


 
"Joseph D. Darcy" <Joe.Darcy at Sun.COM> napisał(a): 
 
 > A class cannot simultaneously satisfy the List and Set contracts for 
 > equals; various properties fail to hold such as (a.equals(b) && 
 > a.equals(c) ==> b.equals(c)):
 > if listset.equals(list) && listset.equals(set), list.equals(set) will 
 > *not* be true.
 

Even easier example is hashCode - list starts with 1 for empty and is doing *31 for each element, while set starts with 0 and is just sum of elements' hashcodes (to avoid being iteration order dependent).

Regards,
Artur Biesiadowski



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