How should automatic unboxing handle null values? There seems to be heavy discussion about this. Even one of the designers of this feature, Joshua Bloch, admitted having no clear idea which behaviour was the best: return the default value, or throw a NullPointerException. Initially they were planning to return the default value, but it seems...

I know what you must think: this guy just started blogging, and he's already turned crazy. We all know constructors are very useful: they set up the internal state of a new instance and perform any action that might be needed upon construction. Without them, we would be back to the dark age of pre-OO-ness, using records and manually setting...

I've been looking around at Java-related blogs, and found this interesting experiment by Laird Nelson. Basically, it seems Laid is unnerved by the possibility that basically every line of Java code is a possible source of NullPointerException. He then went into the practice of strengthening his code to make it robust in case any reference...

The Twice as Nice article, part of the alt.lang.jre series at IBM's developerWorks, is an introduction about the Nice programming language: Nice is a JRE compatible, object-oriented language that brings tremendous expressiveness to the Java platform. Nice also lets you implement many of the cutting edge features found in Java 5 on any Java...

How should automatic unboxing handle null values? There seems to be heavy discussion about this. Even one of the designers of this feature, Joshua Bloch, admitted having no clear idea which behaviour was the best: return the default value, or throw a NullPointerException. Initially they were planning to return the default value, but it seems...

I know what you must think: this guy just started blogging, and he's already turned crazy. We all know constructors are very useful: they set up the internal state of a new instance and perform any action that might be needed upon construction. Without them, we would be back to the dark age of pre-OO-ness, using records and manually setting...

I've been looking around at Java-related blogs, and found this interesting experiment by Laird Nelson. Basically, it seems Laid is unnerved by the possibility that basically every line of Java code is a possible source of NullPointerException. He then went into the practice of strengthening his code to make it robust in case any reference...

The Twice as Nice article, part of the alt.lang.jre series at IBM's developerWorks, is an introduction about the Nice programming language: Nice is a JRE compatible, object-oriented language that brings tremendous expressiveness to the Java platform. Nice also lets you implement many of the cutting edge features found in Java 5 on any Java...