Re: Velocity Numerics : TemplateNumber

[Matías Giovannini <ma...@k-bell.com>]

On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 05:43  PM, John J. Allison wrote:

>      if (left.equals(right))
>      {
>          return true;
>      }
>      else if (left.getClass().equals( right.getClass() ) )
>      {
>      // same class but we already know they're !=
>          return false;
>      }
>      // equals fails, not same class,
>      // so continue to TemplateNumber, Number, then finally log error

Actually, equality must test from most particular to most general. In 
fact, if the class being tested happens to be a TemplateNumber (I'm not 
clear to which class does this method belong), the head call to 
equals() would result in infinite recursion, wouldn't it?


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