Cayenne Property class is using 'eq' for the same reason.
> On Nov 17, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Mike Kienenberger <mkien...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Chainable fest testing assertions use "isEqualTo" to avoid confusion
> with "equals"
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Michael Gentry <mgen...@masslight.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org>
>> wrote:
>>>> "eq" with "is",
>>>
>>> I actually prefer "eq[uals]". Considering all other operations in the
>>> Property class, "is" creates a bit of asymmetry IMO.
>>
>> The problem with "equals" is it has other connotations in Java,
>> otherwise I'd like it just fine. Of course, you could argue that "is"
>> also has other Java connotations (JavaBeans is* method naming
>> convention).
>>
>> mrg
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