Stephan Schmidt wrote: > Hey, > > from the developers of Fan who implemented Not-Null-Types in Fan (I > think modeled after Nice) > some said after converting their complete API to default not-null: > > "So only 16% of all the slots use nullable types. Only 8% of all > methods return a nullable type. So empirical evidence does indeed > suggest that non-nullable is the common case." > > http://www.fandev.org/sidewalk/topic/372 > > So it's much more sensible to have @Optional than @NotNull
Yes, I think Niclas even referred to that case as the rationale, and my experience also tells me that it is correct. In any case, Optional feels much more domain-oriented than NotNull :-) I'm in the process of implementing it right now. /Rickard _______________________________________________ qi4j-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev
