Primitive streams and optional (original) (raw)

Doug Lea dl at cs.oswego.edu
Mon Nov 26 13:05:20 PST 2012

On 11/26/12 15:43, Brian Goetz wrote:

Note that all of these concerns about nulls are mostly a matter of choosing which null anomalies we are least uncomfortable with, since there is no choice that is fully anomaly-free.

Nonono! I'm claiming my account is fully anomaly free, and reflects the basic truths of the universe :-)

Or in other words, they will appear to be anomalous only to those people who people who do map.put(null, null) and the like. And my basic point is that catering to them causes not only API complexity but also conceptual complexity. Which these APIs could use less of, not more of.

-Doug

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