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Why was the GetHashCode operation given the lofty status
of being carried out by a member of the Object class?
Jul 21 '05 #1
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Andrew <as**@onezero.org> wrote:
Why was the GetHashCode operation given the lofty status
of being carried out by a member of the Object class?


So that *any* object can be added to a Hashtable.

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Jul 21 '05 #2
Well yes, it does do that. That is not really what I was
asking, though. Let me try to clarify. There are lots of
operations X such that it might be nice to perform X on
any object. But only a few of them actually make it into
the Object class. Why did GetHashCode make it?
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