Re: [Java Spec Report] JSR 201 autobox comments

Eric Blake [email protected] wrote:
> Was it an inadvertant error that 15.20.1 was specified (<, <=, >, >=) but not 
> 15.21 (==, !=)?  In other words, why can I say "1 < new Integer(2)" but not "1 
> != new Integer(2)"?
My guess would be that with the greater than / less than operators, it is always
clear that the primitive type has to be used, while the ==, != operators apply
to both primitive and reference types and it would be unclear which kind of 
comparison should be used. 

I haven't looked into autoboxing yet, but I guess given

Integer FIVE = new Integer( 5 );
Integer SIX = new Integer( 6 );

one could write

if( FIVE < SIX )...

That's cool, but

if( FIVE != SIX )...

would be kind of confusing.

Cheers, 
Christopher.



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