Manfred Nowak wrote:
> Frits van Bommel wrote
>> Your proposed default implementation doesn't satisfy that.
> In fact those requirements are necessary only for binary tress built in the collision buckets.

Yes, but the current implementation *does* use binary trees, IIRC.

> If one can live with linear lists in the collsions baskets, then
> opCmp(Object) is allowed to degenerate to !opEquals(Object).

That might not be a great solution, especially when you need to consider that user-defined hash functions may not be very good...

"Frits van Bommel" <fvbommel@REMwOVExCAPSs.nl> wrote in message news:eqi7ph$io7$2@digitaldaemon.com...
>
> "that sort of thing" == "and stuff like that", i.e. not *just* that. If I'd meant transitivity, I'd have said that (that term I know).

Woah, woah, woah!  Calm down there, killer!

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Frits van Bommel" <fvbommel@REMwOVExCAPSs.nl> wrote in message news:eqi7ph$io7$2@digitaldaemon.com...
>> "that sort of thing" == "and stuff like that", i.e. not *just* that.
>> If I'd meant transitivity, I'd have said that (that term I know).
> 
> Woah, woah, woah!  Calm down there, killer! 

I think that came over wrong. Maybe I should have put in a smiley or something.

I just wanted to clarify that point.

So hard to convey tone and stuff over a text-only medium...