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by jodrellblank 6072 days ago
"""Typing a few less characters on boiler plate doesn't buy you anything, unless you're a slow/lazy programmer"""

Must be nice to have an infinitely large short term memory.
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jrockway 6072 days ago
Not to mention that I have never said a thing about things like "public static void". I specifically mentioned the object system above and how much manual easy-to-get-wrong code is required simply to make things that have an equals method also have a "not equals" method.

Sometimes I wonder why I bother arguing with axod. Wait, I always wonder that...

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axod 6072 days ago
Come on. How often do you really need an equals method in your classes? It's not a big deal. (No, I'm not one of those people who insist on writing equals/hashcode/toString on everything even when it's not being used).

I wonder why I try to bring sanity to these sorts of discussions also :/

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jrockway 6072 days ago
The example is an example. For "not equals" you might as well just write not, then equals.

But amazingly, sometimes code more complicated than that needs to be reused

I wonder why I try to bring sanity to these sorts of discussions also :/

When did you do that? You seem to bring a lot of emotion, very few technical arguments, and a lot of words like "fashion".

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