On Thursday, 12 July 2012 at 04:15:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Required reading prior to this: http://goo.gl/eXpuX
You destroyed, we listened.
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What say you?
Andrei
I agree, they are not needed.
This situation is similar to C#, but there the problem doesn't
seem to be so severe.
Jon Skeet wrote on this long ago:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2008/12/05/redesigning-system-object-java-lang-object.aspx
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3096028/why-gethashcode-is-in-object-class