On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:15:34 GMT, Martin Buchholz <mar...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> > > BitSet#equals > > > > > > Did you mean BitSet#hashCode? > > No. BitSet#equals uses the private fields and methods of its argument, which > OO purists would never allow. If the other is a subclass with a different > private representation, this code would fail. (Don't fix it!) I see. While both `hashCode` and `equals` use private fields, `equals` also calls the `checkInvariants` private method on `this` and the other set. I reckon, it makes `equals` quantitatively worse than `hashCode`, rather than qualitatively. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14868#issuecomment-1642486252
