Hi Goetz,
Sorry I have been busy on other time-critical things. I will
get to it hopefully next week.
Mandy
On 3/15/19 3:55 AM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
Hi everybody, Mark,
I followed your advice and created a JEP:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8220715
Please point me to things I need to improve formally, this is my first
JEP. Also feel free to fix the administrative information in the
Jira issue if it is wrong.
And, naturally, you're welcome to discuss the topic!
Best regards,
Goetz.
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Subject: Re: RFR(L): 8218628: Add detailed message to NullPointerException
describing what is null.
2019/3/14 8:00:20 -0700, maurizio.cimadam...@oracle.com:
I second what Mandy says.
First let me start by saying that this enhancement will be a great
addition to our platform; back in the days when I was teaching some Java
classes at the university, I was very aware of how hard it is to
diagnose a NPE for someone novel to Java programming.
Agreed!
...
I also think that the design space for such an enhancement is non
trivial, and would best be explored (and captured!) in a medium that is
something other than a patch. ...
Agreed, also.
Goetz -- if, per Mandy’s suggestion, you’re going to write something
up using the JEP template, might I suggest that you then submit it as
an actual JEP? Giving visibility to, and recording, such design-space
explorations is one of the primary goals of the JEP process.
- Mark
