That does sound like good safe style. +1 for that.
Bob. On 08/08/2007, Tom Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a number of places where API methods which are specified to return a > Collection can also return a null value. This causes the caller to have to > write additional unnecessary code to first check for null before using the > return value. > > I'd like us to forbid this practice and require all methods which are > specified to return a Collection be required to return an empty collection > instead of a null. Unless there objections, I'm going to start by changing > any methods in the Model subsystem which exhibit this behavior. > > Tom > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
