On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:55:34 GMT, John Hendrikx <[email protected]> wrote:

> I really must wonder at some of these changes. They seem... unnecessary. Just 
> because equals is overridden, doesn't mean hashCode must be as well, 
> especially not if the objects involved are mutable -- it might in fact be 
> better to leave it alone or return a constant value from it (or only use 
> immutable fields).

This not true - there's a contract between `hashCode` and `equals` quoting the 
JavaDoc of `hashCode()`:
> If two objects are equal according to the equals(Object) method, then calling 
> the hashCode method on each of the two objects must produce the same integer 
> result.

-------------

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/821

Reply via email to