So we have:
public void addFieldDesc(FieldDesc field) and want to do something appropriate when field == null. Don't many standard Java classes (i.e. Hashtable.get()) just throw RuntimeExceptions (i.e. NPE or IllegalArgumentException) in cases like this, without explicitly declaring the exceptions? If so, what we were doing (throwing NPE) might be OK... what's the right thing to do here? Glyn, you raised the issue - got thoughts? --Glen
