>> But my question is still open: is it safe because they are not unique to
>> element?
>>
>
>They are still unique ever new element still gets a unique hashcodes, and all
>strings are turned into StringElements getting a unique object hashcode at
that
>point.
Where do you actually implement hashCode method?
>> And isn't it easier and faster to simply wrap int with Integer rather than
>> convert it to String?
>
>We do it this way so that we are dealing with a known. We know that all
>keys are
>strings and therefore can make certain assumptions. It's hard to do
>comparisions
>against an unknown.
It's Integer, not unknown.
Sorry for pushing this, I just want to feel safe about ECS.
Zeljko Trogrlic
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