Github user holdenk commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/831#discussion_r13413232
--- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala ---
@@ -118,8 +118,25 @@ abstract class RDD[T: ClassTag](
// Methods and fields available on all RDDs
//
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+ /** Accessor method which throws a runtime exception if null. This lets
us have
--- End diff --
It adds to the API of RDD and the previous usage was unsafe so I'd argue
this is better, but I can understand the argument so I'll hack it in without
this change.
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