What methods should go into a java.util.Objects class in JDK 7?

[Paul Benedict]

Thank you, Bob. I stand corrected.

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Bob Lee <crazybob at crazybob.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Paul Benedict <pbenedict at apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> Understood, but the keyword (pun) here is "effectively". Why let a
>> developer wait until runtime to find out his code will fail? At least
>> by marking the class as final, anybody who wishes to subclass it will
>> receive a compiler error. Rain on the parade early :-)
>
> Paul, this is caught at compile time, since you can't call the private
> constructor. The "final" would be redundant.
> Bob