Pattern: Explicit call to xor()
Issue: -
This rule detects when the xor(Object) method is called directly in code instead of using the ^ operator. A groovier way to express this: a.xor(b) is this: a ^ b. This rule can be configured to ignore this.xor(Object) using the ignoreThisReference property. It defaults to false, so even xor(x) will trigger a violation.
This rule also ignores all calls to super.xor(Object).