2011/7/28 Roman Kennke <[email protected]>: > Hi Artem, > >> On 7/28/2011 10:34 PM, Roman Kennke wrote:
> I will tell this (artificial problem) to my team! They are running into > this every couple of weeks with a real world application in a critical > application. Yes, it's application's fault. But doing this better than > swallownig the NPE would help alot. > > Cheers, Roman > >> Thanks, >> >> Artem Hi Artem, Indeed, we don't need to support this, we should rather make it harder to do a mistakes like this :) The problem is that real world code does this kind of broken things :( and I suspect the original submitter actually was stuck with something similar (and maybe less obvious than a dialog popping up in the wrong moment). The illegal state would be more obvious than a null pointer exception, I believe. Cheers, Mario -- pgp key: http://subkeys.pgp.net/ PGP Key ID: 80F240CF Fingerprint: BA39 9666 94EC 8B73 27FA FC7C 4086 63E3 80F2 40CF IcedRobot: www.icedrobot.org Proud GNU Classpath developer: http://www.classpath.org/ Read About us at: http://planet.classpath.org OpenJDK: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/caciocavallo/ Please, support open standards: http://endsoftpatents.org/
