Reference Equality

• Two references to objects are equal if they refer to one and the same object.

• Example

What does the following code print?

class Foo{

int f = 6;

}

. . .

Foo p1 = new Foo();

Foo p2 = new Foo();

if ( p1 == p2 )

System.out.println(�equal�);

else

System.out.println(�not equal�);

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