{{Quickfixn}} Equals and Hashcode for fields

[Grant Birchmeier]

Agreed.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Mike Gatny <mgatny at connamara.com> wrote:

> 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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