Re: FYI: Patch: java.util.Hashtable

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce at mckinlay dot net dot nz>]

On Dec 8, 2003, at 8:02 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:

> > Can you (Jim/Dalibor) explain what this change achieves? I understand 
> > reversing the delegation order between contains() & containsValue(), 
> > but why add an internal private method? It doesn't affect the 
> > overriding behaviour of containsValue() at all - or am I missing 
> > something
>
> The new method is not strictly necessary. It was there to make 
> patching easier until we figured out the proper delegation chain for 
> contains*(). Feel free to inline it back into contains().

Thanks. I'm checking this in.

Bryce.

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