Yes... I was asking 'Why?' is there a NullPointerException with number 2...

Ted


--- On Sat, 7/31/10, Jérémy DE ROYER <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Jérémy DE ROYER <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: checking for null Noob question
> To: "Theodore Petrosky" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, July 31, 2010, 8:07 AM
> I won't do the second one because you
> could see a NullPointerException. Is it your question ?
> 
> Jérémy
> 
> Le 31 juil. 2010 à 14:05, Theodore Petrosky a écrit :
> 
> > 
> > Why does this work:
> > 
> > public String dueDateTypeLetter() {
> >         
> > if (this.dueDateType() == null ||
> this.dueDateType().equals("N")) {
> > return "";
> > }
> > return this.dueDateType();
> > }
> > 
> > and this doesn't....
> > 
> > public String dueDateTypeLetter() {
> >         
> > if (this.dueDateType().equals("N") ||
> this.dueDateType() == null) {
> > return "";
> > }
> > return this.dueDateType();
> > }
> > 
> > obviously the difference is the order of checking in
> the 'if' statement...
> > 
> > I don't really care that I must check in a specific
> order... It just took me time to understand that the order
> was important.
> > 
> > Ted
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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