opCmp, opEquals

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:04 AM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> I have a small question regarding OOP design. The signature of opCmp, opEquals when defined inside classes require a Object argument.
> So you have to define what to do when the given object can't be cast to the this class. Here you can see two alternative designs:
>
> http://codepad.org/tOHnTObl
>
> I think the C1 design is a bad design and the C2 is the right one, but I'd like to know your opinion.
>
> I think Python 2.6+ uses the C1 design, Python3+ uses the C2 design.
>
> Someone told me that Java uses a mixed approach: the opEquals returns false when the cast is not possible, while the cmp throws an exception.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile
>

I think C2 is the right one as well.