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By ivan_memruk
via thewrongcode.blogspot.com
Published: Dec 28 2007 / 23:13

The equals/instanceof pitfall
A review of a very common but very wrong approach to writing the first line of your equals() implementation..
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Kirill Grouchnikov replied ago:

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Correct link is http://thewrongcode.blogspot.com/2007/12/equalsinstanceof-pitfall.html

Don't link to the entire blog

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ivan_memruk replied ago:

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Yeah Kirill I did fix the link but somehow dzone still shows it the incorrect way that I first entered it :(
Did you read the post?

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dzonelurker replied ago:

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See:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2004/jw-0614-equals.html

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ivan_memruk replied ago:

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thanks dzonelurker
the article you've given the link for sorta addresses the issue
however the code of the examples given there is really horrible, lots of redundant if-checks and returns
anyway, it is better to do it this way than the semantically incorrect way

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