[jira] Resolved: (VELOCITY-350) Base Equality on toString() when operands are of different classes

["Will Glass-Husain (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-350?page=all ]
     
Will Glass-Husain resolved VELOCITY-350:
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    Resolution: Fixed

updated docs.

> Base Equality on toString() when operands are of different classes
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>
>          Key: VELOCITY-350
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-350
>      Project: Velocity
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: Source
>     Versions: 1.5
>  Environment: Operating System: Windows XP
> Platform: PC
>     Reporter: Will Glass-Husain
>      Fix For: 1.5

>
> This was discussed on the dev list a few weeks ago.  If two objects being 
> compared are of different (non-numeric) classes, I'd like to see equality be 
> based on toString (rather than just be false).  This just makes sense in a 
> template environment where types are not visible to template writers, and is 
> also the way that JSTL/JSP 2.0 works.  This is particularly useful when 
> comparing a literal String to a class implementing Bloch's Typesafe 
> Enumeration pattern [1] or a StringBuffer.
> Comments welcome.
> [1]
> http://java.sun.com/developer/Books/shiftintojava/

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