java.lang.StackOverflowError

From: Asad Khan (uoft_cstutor_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/27/03 

Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 23:59:59 GMT

I have the following method inside I class,

  public boolean equals(Object o) {
    return (this.equals(o));
  }

but when i call this method by "foo.equals(bum)" where foo and bum are some
objects, I get a java.lang.StackOverflowError??

I kinda know why its happening; I think it calls the same equals method and
keep going round and round. But, this is what I have to do, without renaming
the method, so what's the way around it?

Thanks.

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