[jdom-interest] [Vote] NoSuchChildException
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Wed Jul 12 16:22:26 PDT 2000
At 4:37 PM -0500 7/12/00, Brett McLaughlin wrote:
>Excellent reasoning! So since we all know people are going to be enraged
>by this ;-), do you also feel we should not provide:
>
>public Element getChild(String name, Element defaultValue);
>
I hadn't thought of that method that way. I was thinking that people
would provide the defaultValue as something they could use if there
was no child, not as a simple error flag. But if it's just an error
flag, then yes, I would say we shouldn't provide that method.
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