Objects.toString [Re: What methods should go into a java.util.Objects class in JDK 7?]

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Paul Benedict wrote:
>>> Why would you choose to return "null" for any null object?
>>>       
>> Because that is how the platform has always treated null in string
>> concatenation.
>>     
>
> If you were defining new operations for String, StringBuilder, or
> StringBuffer, I would agree with your choice. Since you are now
> defining a global utility method for all objects, I think having
> "null" being the de-facto string representation of null is simply
> taking it too far.
>   

System.out.println("" + referenceOfAnyType);

will print "null" if referenceOfAnyType is null.

This is what the platform has done since the beginning.

-Joe