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Accidental shitpost (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[โ€“] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are use cases. Like containers where the pointer to the object itself is the key (for example a set). But they are niche and should be implemented by the standard library anyway. One of the things I hate most about Java is .equals() on strings. 99.999% of times you compare strings, you want to compare the contents, yet there is a reserved operator to do the wrong comparison.

[โ€“] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Java has the hash interface for using in containers. You don't need to override equality for it.