Gang, I just saw a claim regarding the "Fan" language, saying
<quote> Well, it turns out that is the most common state for variable. Most programmers intend most variables to not hold null. In converting the Fan sourcebase figures of 80% were not uncommon (ie. 80% of variables were originally intended to never hold null). Clearly it makes sense to make the most common case the default, and thus to make handling null a special case. </quote> Although they (nor I) can substantiate the claim in more detail, my gut feeling says that it is probably true. Would that mean we should have default constraint @NotNull, and instead allow people to mark @Null when it can be?? Cheers Niclas _______________________________________________ qi4j-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev
