Re: [java-gnome-hackers] null constant?

[Guillaume M. <res...@gm...>]

> We can change the code to initialize that constant to Java null if it's
> not found.
Yes we can.

> Is that acceptable? I'm not sure. Maybe this is a special case, but
> *nowhere* else in java-gnome is one of the constant fields null (!) -
> they're all initialized to Constant Objects.
I don't think that is really acceptable. That means that developers will
have to check if the constant is "!= null" before using it. And I think
that it is not how we should use a constant.

I guess it is a special case but what do we with it? Ignore it? Try to
deal with it?

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Guillaume Mazoyer - http://www.respawner.fr/