Re: [PATCH] Field position attribute handling

[Chris Gray]

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 11:38, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Jeroen Frijters wrote:
> > Dalibor Topic wrote:
[...]
> >>If two objects are not equal, they should have different hashCodes.
> >
> > No this isn't true, however, if two objects are equal, they must have
> > identical hashCodes. It would be nice if unequal objects had different
> > hashCodes, but this is not a requirement.
>
> Note that I used *should* in my sentence instead of *must*, and reparse
> what I said ;)

In general it's impossible to ensure that non-equal objects have different 
hashcodes - just think for a moment about java.lang.Long. So IMHO even 
"should" is going too far ...

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