10 January 2003

Avoid Standardsism

By carlfish on 10 January 2003

NullPointerException

By carlfish on 10 January 2003

The NullPointerException in Java can be incredibly annoying. In some languages, such as Objective-C, the null (or in their case, nil) object doesn't throw an exception, it just quietly returns another nil for every method called on it. I prefer the Java behaviour. Many others disagree. →