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lrn@google.com 8a58e3f1f3 Cleanup the core/object.dart file.
Move "Type" and "identical" into separate files.
Make runtimeType a getter.

Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org//10977033

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// Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors. Please see the AUTHORS file
// for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
// BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
/**
* Everything in Dart is an [Object].
*/
class Object {
/**
* Creates a new [Object] instance.
*
* [Object] instances have no meaningful state, and are only useful
* through their identity. An [Object] instance is equal to itself
* only.
*/
const Object();
/**
* The equality operator.
*
* The default behavior for all [Object]s is to return true if and
* only if [:this:] and [other] are the same object.
*
* If a subclass overrides the equality operator it should override
* the [hashCode] method as well to maintain consistency.
*/
bool operator ==(other) => identical(this, other);
/**
* Get a hash code for this object.
*
* All objects have hash codes. Hash codes are guaranteed to be the
* same for objects that are equal when compared using the equality
* operator [:==:]. Other than that there are no guarantees about
* the hash codes. They will not be consistent between runs and
* there are no distribution guarantees.
*
* If a subclass overrides [hashCode] it should override the
* equality operator as well to maintain consistency.
*/
external int hashCode();
/**
* Returns a string representation of this object.
*/
external String toString();
/**
* [noSuchMethod] is invoked when users invoke a non-existant method
* on an object. The name of the method and the arguments of the
* invocation are passed to [noSuchMethod]. If [noSuchMethod]
* returns a value, that value becomes the result of the original
* invocation.
*
* The default behavior of [noSuchMethod] is to throw a
* [noSuchMethodError].
*/
external Dynamic noSuchMethod(String name, List args);
/**
* A representation of the runtime type of the object.
*/
external Type get runtimeType;
}