On 1/13/07, Nathan Beyer wrote:

Assuming the class is actually a Comparator, that's probably fine,
though it does seem a little weird. A Comparator is supposed to
implement an equals method to determine if two Comparators are logical
equal such that given two different instances they would both sort
something exactly the same way. Perhaps this class is just saying that
can never be possible.


Yes, it looks like a sub that implies that the class's instances
shouldn't be compared. I'd remove it to inherit the method implementation
from Object class.

Thanks,
Stepan.

-Nathan

On 1/12/07, Sian January <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have found a class in the security module that overrides the equals
> methods, but just returns false within that method.  There doesn't seem
to
> be any comment about why it does this so I was just wondering if anyone
had
> any idea?  The class is
> org.apache.harmony.security.x501.AttributeTypeAndValueComparator.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sian
>
> --
> Sian January
>
> IBM Java Technology Centre, UK
>
>




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