I am not sure if an object's identity is it's location in the internal memory or a reference value that points towards its state.
Could someone please explain what it actually is?
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What is an object's identity?
I am not sure if an object's identity is it's location in the internal memory or a reference value that points towards its state.
Could someone please explain what it actually is?
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Re: What is an object's identity?
Where did you hear that term? I've not heard it.
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Re: What is an object's identity?
It is from a book called murach's Java Programming.Originally Posted by Norm
Re: What is an object's identity?
How did the author define the term?
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Re: What is an object's identity?
Conceptual ideas such as objects and state/behavior are denoted to refer to a class files behavior or methods. Such as a person is a noun and is considered an Object in Java. In other terms it is a noun. In Java, these nouns have conceptual ideas called class files. Its components or behaviors are termed what is their attributes are. I think the term identity may be used interchangeably with a person(real life) and such as here, a conceptual Object or idea.
Re: What is an object's identity?
"All object variables are reference types, which mean they don't actually contain the data like primitive data types do. Instead, they point to the data, which is another an other area of internal storage"
"An object's identity is its address in internal memory, which is always unique."
These 2 description were in separate chapters. Could the identity be a reference value to another reference value or what?
Re: What is an object's identity?
"An object's identity is its address in internal memory, which is always unique."
That looks like the author's definition.
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Re: What is an object's identity?
So would you agree that an object's identity is it's reference value to the reference value to its state or value such as a String's text?
Re: What is an object's identity?
I have no idea what you are trying to say.
The author said:
"An object's identity is its address in internal memory"
Everything in a computer is located at some address. The above seems to say that the author defines the address as the "identity".
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Re: What is an object's identity?
Object identity: Objects can contain or refer to other objects.
Identity is a property of an object that distinguishes the object from all other objects in the application.
There are many techniques for identifying objects in programming languages, databases and operating systems.
Identity: Identity means it is the same object instance while equality means the objects you compare are to different instances of an object but happen to contain
the same data.
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