The behavior of equals methods and comparators could be clarified by more explicitly discussing the equivalence classes those methods define. Such discussions would be especially helpful for classes like BigDecimal where the natural ordering is *inconsistent* with equals.
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JDK-8261688 Augment discussion of equivalence classes in Object.equals and comparison methods
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JDK-8080449 doc for Object.toString should use @implSpec
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JDK-8261862 Expand discussion of rationale for BigDecimal equals/compareTo semantics
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