Re: package private static equals and hash methods in java.util

[Eric Blake]

Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a couple of classes in java.util have the same
> implementation of a static final equals and hashCode
> method taking two arguments. 
>
> What is the reason why not all the calls are delegated
> to a single implementation, say
> AbstractCollection.equals/hashCode instead of
> duplicating the code ?

Because I was lazy - using inheritance, I could just type equals(a, b), 
instead of the full Collections.equals(a, b) if the helper methods lived 
in a single file.  Feel free to change that if you want.

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