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Subject: Re: [lang] Pre 2.0 StringUtils NPE changes
Howard M. Lewis Ship [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I must have missed this. What change to
StringUtils.isEmpty() are you making. I like it just the
way it it ... I had an identical method in Tapestry that I
deprecated and pointed
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 13:49, Hope, Matthew wrote:
interesting problem...
empty string has a very clear meaning in java, it is a non null String
object of zero length.
Does the entrenched user base merit retaining a non standard naming
convention.
or is Empty sufficiently entrenched to
I think (and my personal experience) is that the isEmpty() acts as a
short-cut for has a value; where value is not a whitespace character
and is not null (thus the trim - whitespaces are not 'valued').
This is so subjective though, I'm sure hasValue() would quickly be shot
down ;-)
--- Janek
Subject: RE: [lang] Pre 2.0 StringUtils NPE changes
I think (and my personal experience) is that the isEmpty() acts as a
short-cut for has a value; where value is not a whitespace character
and is not null (thus the trim - whitespaces are not 'valued').
This is so subjective though, I'm sure
