On 19/03/2013 01:17, Peter Williams wrote: <snip>
Am I right in thinking that removal of these methods from Object will mean that it will no longer be necessary for the the argument to be of type Object
Yes, and that's indeed a potentially good reason to remove opCmp and opEquals from Object, and one I'd thought of myself but hadn't got round to bringing into the conversation.
and that the need for casting in the implementation will go away?
The need to cast from Object to some class just to compare objects of that class will go away, but you might still have similar casts it if you have a class with a comparator and you create subclasses of it.
Stewart.
