On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 20:37:50 GMT, Sean Mullan <mul...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Agree on returning null to maintain current behavior. I would also lean >> towards amending the specification to specify what has been long-standing >> behavior. > > If we had to do it over again, I do think throwing IAE is more appropriate > because this case would probably be due to a bug in the application code. Now > code has to defensively check for a null return value. I don't know, maybe we > don't want to modify the specification at this point and leave this as > undefined behavior. > Agree on returning null to maintain current behavior. I would also lean > towards amending the specification to specify what has been long-standing > behavior. I just updated the PR to return null ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7348
