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This complaint is not really about the proposed change, it is a longstanding problem with Java. As long as you treat exceptions with the sane care in switch sta

This complaint is not really about the proposed change, it is a longstanding problem with Java. As long as you treat exceptions with the sane care in switch statements as you do in try statements, this doesn't introduce any new problems.

bedobi 3y ago
> it is a longstanding problem with Java it's, along with null pointers, probably the no 1 biggest foot gun in the language, responsible for countless bugs in pretty much every app ever written in the language, and it's treated as some unaddressed elephant in the room we don't talk about or consider alternatives to
- PaulHoule 3y ago
  It is easy to put the right behavior in a function wrapper like https://github.com/paulhoule/pidove/blob/97f8ec697d2890f13ba1726fa3640d05e808fd6f/src/main/java/com/ontology2/pidove/util/DuctTape.java#L75 https://github.com/paulhoule/pidove/blob/97f8ec697d2890f13ba...
- dgellow 3y ago
  C# added nullable reference types a few years ago. Is there an equivalent in Java? That makes dealing with null pretty much a non-issue https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/nullable-references https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/nullable-ref...