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It is the sign, rather than the magnitude of the value returned from ``++compareTo++`` that matters. Returning ``++Integer.MIN_VALUE++`` does _not_ convey a higher degree of inequality, and doing so can cause errors because the return value of ``++compareTo++`` is sometimes inversed, with the expectation that negative values become positive. However, inversing ``++Integer.MIN_VALUE++`` yields ``++Integer.MIN_VALUE++`` rather than ``++Integer.MAX_VALUE++``.
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== Noncompliant Code Example
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public int compareTo(MyClass) {
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if (condition) {
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return Integer.MIN_VALUE; // Noncompliant
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}
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----
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== Compliant Solution
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----
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public int compareTo(MyClass) {
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if (condition) {
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return -1;
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}
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----
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ifdef::env-github,rspecator-view[]
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'''
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== Implementation Specification
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(visible only on this page)
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include::message.adoc[]
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endif::env-github,rspecator-view[]
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