I think James Owen wrote: > One other thing, something that most "old timers" even forget. :-) If > you re-write equals for a class that already exists or one that you > inherit then you have to re-write the hash map table.
Of course what jco means is that if you override equals(), you should override hashCode() as well; the details of doing this correctly are spelled out quite clearly in the Javadocs for the Object class. Joshua Bloch's book is, indeed, good as well. --------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Friedman-Hill Advanced Software Research Phone: (925) 294-2154 Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234 PO Box 969, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Livermore, CA 94550 http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
