Object ID's

[John Cowan]

Igor Bukanov scripsit:

> A side remark about requiring intrinsic::hashcode to be unique. It can
> be extremely expensive to implement that in Rhino since Java does not
> require that Object.hashCode returns unique numbers. From
> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#hashCode()

What's worse, Java encourages class authors to override hashCode,
and there is no basicHashCode method (as in Smalltalk) to retrieve
the approximation-to-object-identity.  (IMHO you ought not to
override equals and hashCode unless your class represents values,
but Java programmers routinely do so.)

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John Cowan   cowan at ccil.org  http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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