Github user sahitya-pavurala commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/850#issuecomment-113121714
instanceOf being an operator will return false if its a null reference ,
but getClass being a method will give an exception(I think so), also use of
getClass makes more sense since its a equals method and we want both the types
to be identical(no sub types)
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