Um, never... or very infrequently. I do not think I have ever written
a bit of code that threw a NPE... not sure why I would actually.
--jason
On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 04:03 PM, Alex Blewitt wrote:
On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 09:50 Europe/London, James Strachan
wrote:
I favour IAE myself as a guideline though wouldn't rule against NPE
in some code.
In what situations would you use a NPE, then? I can't think of any
situation where an NPE could be considered useful when in all other
times it reports a bug.
In the situations you outline in your next message, why couldn't you
use (say) IAE or even RuntimeException?
Alex.
