Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability

Re:Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability by __float on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @12:39PM (#30768292)

In practice, how often are you interested in it? C# has `Object.referenceEquals()` because you _may_ want this sometimes. But to have reference equality be the default for something like `==` is a design flaw. Not one that can be fixed now, of course, but it will continue to cause bugs for years to come.

Sometimes, it happens in core Java libraries themselves: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8274779

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/722d639fad2e4fc6eb2aabd4...

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Re:Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability by marginalia_nu on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @12:53PM (#30768500)

Dunno, I do a fair bit of low level java work, happens every once in a while.

Curiously, I don't do a lot of value-comparisons. Based on grepping in the repo for my search engine, I appear to do one every 1000 lines of code. May just be how I write code though. Some people seem to do that a lot more.

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