Confusion between NullPointerException and NullArgumentException, I think. :)
FWIW, it would *not* have been nice if NPE were an IAE - in a lot of cases where it's generated, it's not because of an argument. In fact it's almost never generated directly as the result of an illegal argument. Adrian -----Original Message----- From: Jason Dillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 August 2003 10:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Error handling] NullPointer or IllegalArgument? > Note on further checking - NPE is not an IAE. They're both > RuntimeExceptions but thats about it. Sorry Jason I think you're > mistaken - but it would have been nice though. Huh? Was there another Jason on this thread... --jason
