Regarding null safe oprators

[Reinier Zwitserloot]

Amen; null lists are a mistake (or at least, if you try to treat them  
as an actual list). A 'maybe' utility method as Paulo Levi showed is  
more than sufficient to address the use case. One could make a case  
for adding this to java.util.Collections.

  --Reinier Zwitserloot



On 2009/16/07, at 01:49, Paulo Levi wrote:

> Someone on another message on this very topic sent this method:
>    public static <E> Iterable<E> maybe(Iterable<E> iterable) {
>        return iterable == null ? Collections.<E>emptyList() :  
> iterable;
>    }
> used like this:
>     for(String s : maybe(list)){
>      ...
>      }
>
> Me i consider a null list a bug.
>