Hi Mandy, > Sorry I have been busy on other time-critical things. I will > get to it hopefully next week. No problem, I have been improving the text slightly anyways. I also pushed my change and a follow up needed to the sandbox repos so it can be played with.
Should I move the JEP to status 'submitted'? Best regards, Goetz > > Mandy > > On 3/15/19 3:55 AM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote: > > Hi everybody, Mark, > > > > I followed your advice and created a JEP: > > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8220715 > > > > Please point me to things I need to improve formally, this is my first > > JEP. Also feel free to fix the administrative information in the > > Jira issue if it is wrong. > > > > And, naturally, you're welcome to discuss the topic! > > > > Best regards, > > Goetz. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: mark.reinh...@oracle.com <mark.reinh...@oracle.com> > >> Sent: Donnerstag, 14. März 2019 22:38 > >> To: maurizio.cimadam...@oracle.com; Lindenmaier, Goetz > >> <goetz.lindenma...@sap.com> > >> Cc: mandy.ch...@oracle.com; roger.ri...@oracle.com; core-libs- > >> d...@openjdk.java.net; hotspot-runtime-...@openjdk.java.net > >> Subject: Re: RFR(L): 8218628: Add detailed message to NullPointerException > >> describing what is null. > >> > >> 2019/3/14 8:00:20 -0700, maurizio.cimadam...@oracle.com: > >>> I second what Mandy says. > >>> > >>> First let me start by saying that this enhancement will be a great > >>> addition to our platform; back in the days when I was teaching some Java > >>> classes at the university, I was very aware of how hard it is to > >>> diagnose a NPE for someone novel to Java programming. > >> > >> Agreed! > >> > >>> ... > >>> > >>> I also think that the design space for such an enhancement is non > >>> trivial, and would best be explored (and captured!) in a medium that is > >>> something other than a patch. ... > >> > >> Agreed, also. > >> > >> Goetz -- if, per Mandy’s suggestion, you’re going to write something > >> up using the JEP template, might I suggest that you then submit it as > >> an actual JEP? Giving visibility to, and recording, such design-space > >> explorations is one of the primary goals of the JEP process. > >> > >> - Mark
