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> De: "Paul Sandoz" <[email protected]>
> À: "Kevin Bourrillion" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "amber-spec-experts" <[email protected]>
> Envoyé: Mercredi 6 Décembre 2017 19:49:08
> Objet: Re: [records] equality on float / double components

>> On 6 Dec 2017, at 10:22, Kevin Bourrillion < [ mailto:[email protected] |
>> [email protected] ] > wrote:

>> I'd strongly expect this to behave exactly as Float.equals() does. The 
>> +0.0/-0.0
>> problem exists but is nothing new.

> I concur. Float/Double.equals/compare is also used for float/double[] array
> equals and compare.

> Paul.

>> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Brian Goetz < [ 
>> mailto:[email protected] |
>> [email protected] ] > wrote:

>>> It's time to play everyone's favorite game show, "What about NaN".

>>> If we have a record:

>>> record Foo(float f);

>>> We would like Object.equals() to be reflexive, symmetric, and transitive. 
>>> But if
>>> we define equals() in the obvious way (delegating to float==), then `new
>>> Foo(Float.NaN`) would not be equal to itself.

>>> If we delegate instead to `Float.compare(this.f, that.f)`, the NaN problem 
>>> goes
>>> away (though comparison becomes modestly more expensive), but now +0 and -0 
>>> are
>>> distinguished (== treats them the same.)

>> --
>> Kevin Bourrillion | Java Librarian | Google, Inc. | [ 
>> mailto:[email protected] |
>> [email protected] ]

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