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------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2005-06-17 19:47 -------
Theoretically, I agree with the points you make and I assume (I'm not the 
original author) that this was an oversight when they were developed.

Having said that, these classes have been working this way for nearly three 
years (since their original versions) and therefore allowing/returning null for 
a definition that is not found is also part of their contract and I would be 
unwilling to make any changes which might cause backward compatibity issues for 
people.

As well as compatibility, this in my mind is a trivial issue and the fact that 
its taken three years before anyone reported a bug on this makes me think its 
not worth any further effort. Personally if I was developing a custom 
implementation I would just return null for a definition which is not found.

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