[GROOVY-101] Add equals(), hashCode(), and Comparable support to GString

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-beta-2
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-beta-3
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Rod Cope
• Created: 30/Dec/03 16:48
• Updated: 05/Jan/04 01:23
• Resolved: 02/Jan/04 11:35

Description

If GStrings implemented equals(), hashCode(), and compareTo(), we could better use them in maps and easily sort them in lists.

Right now, this works:

a = [ "${2}".toString(), "${3}".toString(), "${1}".toString() ]
a.sort()

But this doesn't:

a = [ "${2}", "${3}", "${1}" ]
a.sort()