Niclas Hedhman wrote: > 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??
Hm, interesting point. It does make a lot of sense, and compared to injection it is also the default that it is not null. With injection you mark it as "optional" instead of "null"/"nullable" though, which in a sense is a bit more domain-oriented I think. So far, +1! /Rickard _______________________________________________ qi4j-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev
