Javalobby - Comments for "JSR 666: Solving Java's Problems"

Yes, I understand this from

amigooo — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:14:44 -0500

Yes, I understand this from first post.

I thought that I'm obvious

abies — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:21:20 -0500

I thought that I'm obvious enough, but it seems not.

Alexander, this entire thread is a satire. None of the posts above, including mine, are serious. There are some subtle hints indicating it, including "Geeze, I thought this was serious for a minute" from Loren, but it is probably time to state it yet more clearly.

"" and null is not the same.

amigooo — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:15:35 -0500

"" and null is not the same. This is completly different things. About the null marker, you right, this is one the possible solution, but if for every null in program we start to use some kind of markers, it can make our code unmaintainable. And in reality we will have many problems instead of NPE.

Any way I agree with you that this is not happen in nearest future.

Naaah. For strings iuse ""

abies — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:21:10 -0500

Naaah.

For strings iuse "" instead of null. For primite wrappers, null is just messing around with autoboxing - and double has NaN which can be very well used to represent tricky values. When you have Person class, instead of using null to indicate that Cat has no owner, you can have special marker instances like GENERIC_GRAVEYARD_OLD_LADY to indicate it is fed by unknown person, or FURRY_GRIM_REAPER to indicate it is soon going to die from not being fed.

Obviously removing null won't happen anytime soon, because Java 7 is sponsored by letter N.

>> Eliminate

amigooo — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:27:49 -0500

>> Eliminate NullPointerExceptions. Remove null and require that all variables have a valid value.

I don't think that this is a good idea. Null is very important.

Loved the

davidsills — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:49:03 -0500

Loved the SchrödingerException! although I did think it might be better defined as: This exception can exist as either till a point where the exception is caught, at which time the thread running the handler is found to be either dead or alive.

Brilliant!

rick — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:02:17 -0500

Brilliant!

Geeze, I thought this was

qphase — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:46:31 -0500

Geeze, I thought this was serious for a minute. Had me worried.

Actually...Letters and

renrutal — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:25:14 -0500

Actually...

Letters and digits may be drawn from the entire Unicode character set, which supports most writing scripts in use in the world today, including the large sets for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This allows programmers to use identifiers in their programs that are written in their native languages.

I was about to post a

cowwoc — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:22:39 -0500

I was about to post a comment telling you off before I clued in ;)

All I've got to say is that it's a good thing that Java doesn't allow identifiers to be declared using Unicode characters. I'll spare you the headache of debugging code with Russian or Japanese comments. I'd hate for the actual code to use these characters :)

Javalobby - Comments for "JSR 666: Solving Java&#039;s Problems"

Yes, I understand this from

I thought that I'm obvious

"" and null is not the same.

Naaah. For strings iuse ""

>> Eliminate

Loved the

Brilliant!

Geeze, I thought this was

Actually...Letters and

I was about to post a

Javalobby - Comments for "JSR 666: Solving Java's Problems"