Objects.firstNonNull

[Brian Goetz]

My point was: with 10M Java developers, there are likely to be millions 
of commonly used idioms.  Should we put them all in the JDK?  And if we 
did, could users find any of them?  The bar needs to be higher than 
"I've found it useful."

We're far better off putting our energy into doing things that users 
can't do themselves in two lines, like supporting parallel map-reduce on 
non-thread-safe ArrayList.

On 3/20/2013 2:55 PM, Michael Nascimento wrote:
> Of course I could, but as in Map.getOrDefault, this is a very much
> commonly used idiom.
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Or you could write your own in two lines.
>>
>>
>> On 3/20/2013 2:33 PM, Michael Nascimento wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> Since Map.getOrDefault has been added (yes!!!), couldn't a
>>> Objects.firstNonNull that works like Guava's one:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/base/Objects.html#firstNonNull(T,
>>> T)
>>>
>>> Then all uses of Objects.firstNonNull would be gone from my code base.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>