JEP 358 (Helpful NPEs) and single source file mode

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

I like this suggestion a lot.

Maurizio

On 19/11/2019 08:34, Gunnar Morling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been exploring the new helpful NPE feature a bit.
>
> It's a very welcomed improvement, but I noticed one potential usability
> issue in conjunction with the single source file mode (JEP 330): as debug
> info is missing in that case, e.g. local variables are rendered as
> "<local1>" in the exception message. Single source file mode also doesn't
> let me specify the "-g:vars" option I could use with javac for adding the
> debugging info.
>
> Perhaps single source file mode should add debug information by default to
> prevent this issue?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Gunnar