map and null values

[Brian Goetz]

Another way of saying this is: this is easy for non-concurrent maps, but 
basically impossible for concurrent maps.  Since these methods are being 
ported down from ConcurrentMap to Map, bending over backwards to 
accomodate uses that won't work anyway in their intended domain is a 
complete waste of energy.

On 1/3/2013 10:40 AM, Doug Lea wrote:
> On 01/03/13 09:57, Peter Levart wrote:
>>
>> And if there is a way to provide a single default
>> implementation in j.u.Map that satisfies both ConcurrentMap implementations that
>> don't allow nulls and plain Map implementations that allow nulls, why not
>> provide it?
>>
>
> Feel free to try. The main constraint is that, to apply to
> possibly-concurrent maps, the  four new function-accepting
> methods must be expressed only in terms of putIfAbsent,
> replace, and/or two-argument remove. While I haven't tried
> to prove this, I believe that all ways of doing it encounter
> the null ambiguity.
>
> -Doug
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