[jdom-interest] Re: getText() returns null or ""

Edoardo Comar edoardo at knowledgeview.co.uk
Wed Oct 4 10:54:14 PDT 2000


I vote for returning ""

long live EMPTY_LIST, arrays with 0 size, EMPTY_STRING, and the like :-)
in my own code I make extensive use of NullObjects (a special instance of a
class).

I always regret later if sometimes I give semantics to the null pointer,
treating it as a value, because of the NPEs or the unnecessary complex
calling code.

Edo


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