{{Quickfixn}} Equals and Hashcode for fields

[Mike Gatny]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Staffan Ulfberg <staffan at ulfberg.se> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In quickfixj, fields override the Equals and Hashcode methods which is
> often useful (I could give examples but I'm sure they are pretty obvious).
> Not having them is not really a problelm (since Dictionaries etc have
> constructors that take the IEqualityComparer to use), but for people that
> migrate from quickfixj (like me) and possible also for people that just
> assume that Equals on FIX fields "just works" this is confusing.
>
> I would suggest these methods are implemented to perform a comparison of
> the tag number and value by overriding them in the FieldBase class.
>

I think this is a good idea.  In general, one of the main goals of qf/n is
to allow developers to write idiomatic .NET code.

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Mike Gatny
Connamara Systems, LLC
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