org.clulab.wm.eidos.attachments
EidosAttachment
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object EidosAttachment
| package attachments
org.clulab.wm.eidos.attachments
This is what subclasses should implement.
This is what subclasses should implement. They should normally check with the superclass first, so super.biEquals(other). The top class should not consult this one, however, at least not expecting true out of it. false is here so that the result is only true if triEquals has decided in equals below. In the end one gets this.eq(other) by default.
Note that biEquals should be called by equals after triEquals. triEquals will have already checked with canEqual that other has the same class as this. In biEquals it is therefore possible to blindly cast to the class of this, which should be faster than matching. Even though that's not the Scala way, for the sake of efficiency of QuicklyEqualable, that's how it's just now implemented.
For example,
override def biEquals(other: Any): Boolean = { val that = other.asInstanceOf[ContextAttachmentSpec]
this.text == that.text }
is being favored over
override def biEquals(other: Any): Boolean = other match { case that: ContextAttachmentSpec => this.text == that.text }