Joe,
I'll volunteer some "find usage" stats from the code base I work on for a
living:
565 ObjectUtils.toString(Object) calls.
487 String.valueOf(Object) calls.
Hopefully others can contribute their "find usage" stats. It seems to me that
both behaviors are useful.
Jason
> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:51:50 -0700
> From: joe.da...@sun.com
> Subject: Re: Objects.toString [Re: What methods should go into a
> java.util.Objects class in JDK 7?]
> To: jason_mehr...@hotmail.com
> CC: core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net
> I'm preparing the first round of java.util.Objects with the
> single-argument static toString method return "null" for null for final
> review. I'll send out a few follow-up emails, including one for
> additional toStrings methods. I'm sympathetic to the two-argument
> toString method with a default.
> -Joe
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