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In article <3443F165.45BAFB30@corp.borland.com>, rwilkman@corp.borland.com 
says...
>I also pushed to get:
>
>clone, getClass, notifyAll, equals, hashCode, toString, finalize, notify
>and wait to that list.  These are reserved method names in java -- ones
>you should never use in your own stuff.  No go on that one.

I respectfully disagree with you and for the most part agree with the end 
result.  toString in particular has to be overridden in your classes if you 
want a sensible result; the default Object toString() isn't going to give you 
anything useful.

Flanagan (in Java in a Nutshell) goes further and suggests that it might be 
wise to override equals() in order to call the equals() methods of the objects 
referred to within the original object; and the same with the clone() method, 
for Cloneable objects.  I can't say I've done either, but I see his point.

William Harris				william@carsinfo.com