Is the only purpose of this suggestion to make it less of an "attractive nuisance"? On Jan 14, 2013, at 12:06 AM, Remi Forax wrote: > A remark of one of my colleague, > "if you want to avoid List<Optional<String>> why Optional has methods hashCode and equals that are overriden". > > I think it makes sense to remove them. > > Rémi >