What methods should go into a java.util.Objects class in JDK 7? (original) (raw)

Paul Benedict pbenedict at apache.org
Sat Oct 10 02:14:59 UTC 2009


Thank you, Bob. I stand corrected.

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Bob Lee <crazybob at crazybob.org> wrote:

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Paul Benedict <pbenedict at apache.org> wrote:

Understood, but the keyword (pun) here is "effectively". Why let a developer wait until runtime to find out his code will fail? At least by marking the class as final, anybody who wishes to subclass it will receive a compiler error. Rain on the parade early :-) Paul, this is caught at compile time, since you can't call the private constructor. The "final" would be redundant. Bob



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