Objects.nonNull()

[David Holmes]

Rémi Forax said the following on 01/14/11 08:31:
> I think I prefer throwIfNull() which is explicit.

+1

As to what gets thrown, none of these suggestions make that obvious from 
their name so I would not be concerned about that. Every Java programmer 
is very early introduced to NullPointerException.

David Holmes

> 
> Rémi
> 
>>
>> On 1/13/2011 4:12 PM, Tom Hawtin wrote:
>>> On 13/01/2011 20:06, Brian Goetz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Most of the other methods in this class are of the form "do the right
>>>> thing if the object is null (or an array)", but this one is "throw an
>>>> exception if the object is null." The intent is clear -- it is for
>>>> simplifying fail-fast behavior by checking for nullity early -- but the
>>>> name is wrong. This is bad for two reasons: (a) it is confusing and (b)
>>>> it forecloses on using the name nonNull() for what most people 
>>>> expect it
>>>> to do -- which is provide a reasonable default.
>>>
>>> I think this is completely the wrong way around. On encountering a null
>>> the right thing is to throw an NPE. Don't make Sir C.A.R. Hoare's
>>> billion-dollar mistake worse.
>>>
>>> Perhaps the carpet-sweeping methods should be renamed, or put into an
>>> appropriately named class.
>>>
>>> Tom
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