> > About the name, I propose: > > iUsedToUseGetClassHereButNodobyWasAbleToUnderstand() > > But there are two methods we want to rename this to, and we can't use > this name twice. I propose we generate random method names instead.
You don't want to violate trademarks either. How about 'vetoNull' derived from the java.beans API. Not that it is a great name but, it is short, the meaning of veto in that context is used to deal with unacceptable values by throwing, and the beans API is already well established. Jason