[Phptmapi-discuss] Fwd: Re: Construct::equals() and Construct::hashCode()

[Lars H. <he...@se...>]

Forgot to include the list.... again...


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Date: Friday, February 5, 2010 4:11:31 PM
Subject: [Phptmapi-discuss] Construct::equals() and Construct::hashCode()

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Hi Johannes,

[...]
>> Well, my proposal was to remove hashCode() and equals() since they
>> wouldn't be used by PHP anyway (i.e. if something is added as key to
>> an array), but the behaviour of the implementations must be
>> predictable of course (c.f. unit tests).

> not sure what you mean by "predictable". Do you have an example?

predictable: All implementations must behave the same. You wrote in
another e-mail:

    """
    [...] comparison of objects is then delegated to implementors
    """

I just wanted to ensure this does not open the door for
incompatibilities between implementations.

Best regards,
Lars
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