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Java

Charles Williams
Charles Williams
2,680 Points
Posted by Charles Williams
Charles Williams
2,680 Points

How does "if (equals(other))" work?

How does this work?

if (equals(other))

I get that we are checking if the current instance of Treet is equal to another Treet instance called "other", but why don't we have to specify what we are comparing "other" to?

1 Answer

Kevin Faust
Kevin Faust
15,353 Points
Kevin Faust
Kevin Faust
15,353 Points

that can be written also as:

if (this.equals(other))

So essentially we are comparing the current object with the "other" object.

Michael Heister
Michael Heister
8,586 Points

I was googling around for literally half an hour since I couldn't grasp what we are actually comparing in the compareTo method... Your simple "this." addition finally helped to make sense of all of it.