Hi, > Roger, Coleen, Maurizio and I talked about this proposed feature. > We all think that improving NPE message is a useful enhancement for > the platform and helps developers to tell what causes NPE. Thanks for this positive feedback :)!
> This is not a small enhancement. Diving into a large code review > would not be the best way to move this forward as you can see the > discussion so far. > > It would help if you can start with writing down the problem and > the proposal like what improvements are proposed and under what > circumstances may be acceptable that NPE message won't be improved. > This would get the discussion on the proposal feature and then > the discussion of the best way to to implement it in the VM, library, > or combination. You can consider using the JEP template that gives > you a good structure to follow for the write up. Yes, I can write down the overall design of this. This probably is a good idea. I already started editing, but please give me a day or two. The past days I have been working on the C-code. I incorporated Coleens comments, but mostly changed the messages to print different text as it was proposed in several reviews. I'm about to publish a webrev with this new coding. This could be a new, better basis for discussing the wording of the message. Best regards, Goetz. > > What do you think? > > Mandy
