David,
I think your question is mostly rhetorical. Most of the code in this
class are one-liners. If you can answer it for this method, you have
answered it for all.
I also think it's a common idiom... and so are the other small stuff in here.
Paul
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:46 PM, David Holmes - Sun Microsystems
<david.hol...@sun.com> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Paul Benedict said the following on 11/15/09 11:28:
>>
>> I would like to propose adding this method:
>>
>> /**
>> * Selects the object if not {...@code null}; otherwise fallsback to the
>> * specified default object.
>> *
>> * @param object the object to test
>> * @param defaultObject the default object
>> * @return the object if not {...@code null}; otherwise the default object
>> */
>> public static Object defaultIfNull(Object object, Object defaultObject) {
>> return (object != null) ? object : defaultObject;
>> }
>
> I don't get it. Why would anyone need the above when they can write:
>
> obj != null ? obj : otherObj
>
> themselves ??? Compared to
>
> defaultIfNull(obj, otherObj)
>
> you don't even save any keystrokes (and this is with a static import)!
>
> David Holmes
>
>
