Re: [NMock2-Dev] Re: mocking interface with generic list property

[Mike M. <mik...@gm...>]

On 3/1/06, Joe Ross <joe...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I'm not involved in the development of NMock2 obviously, but the
> question I raise is whether or not everyone's definition of two lists
> being equal is the same.  My definition for my purpose was that each
> list contained the same items in the same order.  Someone else might
> only care about the same items being in each list but not necessarily
> the same order.  I realize there is also a SortedList<T> in .NET 2.0,
> but I want to use List<T> and add the objects in the correct order
> based on business logic


Well to me, if I'm using a List I would say I did care about order of items=
.
If I didn't care, I'd use a Set or a Bag. Problem is neither of those are
built-in types for .NET (which is an entirely different rant ;-) ).

I was just thinking that "check lists are not null, same size, and each
object in turn .Equals() the corresponding object in the other list" is a
piece of code most people are gonna end up writing, so maybe we should
provide it.

Cheers,
Mike.