> On Apr 19, 2017, at 2:51 PM, Mandy Chung <mandy.ch...@oracle.com> wrote: > > >> On Apr 19, 2017, at 2:02 AM, Peter Levart <peter.lev...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I wonder if there are (or will be) other places where such silent swallowing >> of run-time exceptions happens or will happen. Wouldn't it be good to "fix" >> Boolean.getBoolean() and friends? >> >> I filed the following bug to track this: >> >> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8178966 >> > > Thanks for creating the issue. I fully agree that we should fix this and > silent swallowing the exceptions makes the underlying problem unnoticed. > > Your proposed patch looks good to me. NPE would be thrown if it’s called > before the system properties are initialized. > > Mandy
This looks like a good idea to me too.
