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Posted to dev@commons.apache.org by "Edelson, Justin" <Ju...@mtvi.com> on 2004/05/11 20:25:16 UTC
[lang] Equalator?
I'm writing a few classes that currently implement Comparator, but I
really don't care about comparisons - I just want to use an object to
test equality, ergo Equalator. Does such an interface exist somewhere in
lang (I can't find anything similar).
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RE: [lang] Equalator?
Posted by Eric Pugh <ep...@upstate.com>.
Yes, I think the naming idea is good.. ConfigurationComparator probably
should have been a method on some sort of ConfigurationUtils class, as the
name is confusing...
Eric
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> From: Emmanuel Bourg [mailto:smanux@lfjr.net]
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> Edelson, Justin wrote:
>
> > I'm writing a few classes that currently implement Comparator, but I
> > really don't care about comparisons - I just want to use an object to
> > test equality, ergo Equalator. Does such an interface exist somewhere in
> > lang (I can't find anything similar).
>
> We have a simiar interface in [configuration], that's
> ConfigurationComparator, it defines a simple compare(conf1, conf2)
> method returning a boolean. I'm not quite satisfied with the name since
> it leads to think it inherits the java.util.Comparator interface. An
> Equalator interface in [lang] could be a good replacement.
>
> Emmanuel Bourg
>
>
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Re: [lang] Equalator?
Posted by Emmanuel Bourg <sm...@lfjr.net>.
Edelson, Justin wrote:
> I'm writing a few classes that currently implement Comparator, but I
> really don't care about comparisons - I just want to use an object to
> test equality, ergo Equalator. Does such an interface exist somewhere in
> lang (I can't find anything similar).
We have a simiar interface in [configuration], that's
ConfigurationComparator, it defines a simple compare(conf1, conf2)
method returning a boolean. I'm not quite satisfied with the name since
it leads to think it inherits the java.util.Comparator interface. An
Equalator interface in [lang] could be a good replacement.
Emmanuel Bourg
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