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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