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This discussion concerns the merits of the Canonical Object Idiom, which is presented in the article, The Canonical Object Idiom.

Bill Venners

• What is Clonable - Suji October 12, 2001 at 2:28 AM (0)
• deleting from an array, what am I doing wrong - Lars Madsen June 02, 2001 at 9:32 AM (1)
  • try it!may be it's helpful! - china November 20, 2001 at 1:15 AM (0)
• Creation of objects from an inheritance hierarchy - Kumar January 08, 2001 at 11:17 PM (0)
• What should be an "object" and Canonical Objects - John Lysaght August 31, 2000 at 2:11 PM (0)
• Simpler code for equals(); please review - Vijay Varanasi December 14, 1999 at 1:40 AM (7)
  • avoir le code de calcul - Mouloud Idiri December 30, 2001 at 7:04 AM (1)
    • fgf - sdf December 30, 2001 at 7:06 AM (0)
  • null instanceof Object == false - Steven Pearson August 14, 2000 at 9:10 AM (0)
  • Re: Simpler code for equals(); please review - Michael January 24, 2000 at 1:25 AM (3)
    • Oh Oh - Bill Venners January 24, 2000 at 8:31 PM (2)
      • Errors in both - Dave Roberts February 21, 2000 at 5:04 PM (1)
        • Don't Forget Namespaces - Bill Venners February 28, 2000 at 2:01 PM (0)
• Cloneable is broken. - Kent Spaulding June 08, 1999 at 8:38 AM (0)
• Canonical Object Constructors - Reginald Braithwaite-Lee 08 Oct 1998, 7:17 AM (5)
  • java - piyushpaurana August 06, 2001 at 4:50 AM (0)
  • Don't need a copy constructor - Bill Venners 18 Oct 1998, 9:26 AM (2)
    • Constructor - Mukhtar Shaikh November 12, 2001 at 7:03 AM (0)
    • Crippled Clone - Adrian Dickin 23 Feb 1999, 7:59 AM (0)
  • Copy constructors - Martin Maisey 12 Oct 1998, 7:55 AM (0)
• Questions and Comments - Mike Zhou 18 Sep 1998, 7:22 AM (3)
  • Answer and Comment - Bill Venners 01 Oct 1998, 5:48 AM (2)
    • clone() & toString() - Ashish Sahni 02 Oct 1998, 11:50 AM (1)
      • toString() - Reginald Braithwaite-Lee 08 Oct 1998, 7:22 AM (0)
• Practical pattern regarding equals() - Vjekoslav Nesek 16 Sep 1998, 7:30 AM (1)
  • equals() - C. Wortz 05 Oct 1998, 6:39 AM (0)
• hashCode() should be overridden with equals() - Jody Justus 15 Sep 1998, 10:05 AM (1)
  • By George, You're Right! - Bill Venners 16 Sep 1998, 1:19 AM (0)
• double testing - Bill Venners 12 Sep 1998, 8:44 AM (0)
• Testing 0, 1, 2, ... - Bill Venners 05 Sep 1998, 9:45 AM (0)