Naturally, it's Object#equals. String's override of equals gets involved without the checked downcast.
On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 6:38:07 PM UTC+1, Geo wrote: > > What about the call to .equals? > > On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:20:28 PM UTC-5, Marko Topolnik wrote: >> >> The difference between String[] and Object[] is that a member of the >> former doesn't need a checked cast to String, but the latter does need one. >> In the code under consideration, however, nothing specific to String is >> used, so even in the Java code you can freely replace String[] with >> Object[] and everything still works. >> >> If, on the other hand, you needed to invoke say *substring*, you'd see a >> small penalty due to the checked cast operation. >> >> >> -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
