Re: Re: What is expected behavior on Assert.assertEquals on Number object?

On 2008-06-15, at 21:17 , nat_tul wrote:

> Correct me if i'm wrong.
>
> You state about Object.equals(Object) will return false because it's
> not
> reside in the same address on memory.
>
> I don't agree with this one since Object.equals(Object) should check
> the
> equality of semantic, not just address of object.
>
No. The generic Object class implements equals() to check object
identity (same address in memory). If you want equals() to check
object value, then you need to implement equals() that way.

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