Re: Equality and case objects

>>>>> "martin" == martin odersky writes:

martin> I think it might not be too late. Case class inheritance was
martin> added rather late, and as an afterthought, without having
martin> really thought the issues through. So we might not break too
martin> much code deprecating them. (I also noted a rather unfortunate
martin> misunderstanding where newbies start with an abstract case
martin> class extended by other case classes; they did not intend to
martin> match on the abstract class; they were just unsure where to put
martin> the case, so they put it everywhere).

I'd been doing Scala for a whole year before I finally realized
this was wrong to do...

I think in every case I did this in the past, the new "case classes
without a parameter list have been deprecated" warning on the trunk
would now yell at me, at least.