Agreed. I'd never read the javadoc which suggests collections usage and had assumed we had grander schemes.
Is ObjectUtils.NULL worth keeping? Hen On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Paul Benedict <[email protected]> wrote: > The use of ObjectUtils.NULL seems esoteric. If you didn't write this > email, I wouldn't have known of its support. > > Paul > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Stephen Colebourne > <[email protected]> wrote: >> The new ObjectUtils.firstNonNull() method checked for both null and the >> ObjectUtils.NULL constant object. Since that was the only method with that >> behaviour I removed the check for the NULL object. >> >> The question is broader than that... do we want all null checks in >> ObjectUtils or [lang] to also check for ObjectUtils.NULL? >> >> IMO, the NULL constant was intended for collections where null isn't valid. >> So I don't think I'd add broader checks. >> >> Stephen >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
