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Re: Why not String compare?

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On 26.08.2016 18:00, Eric Douglas wrote:
> This seems odd, the String class returns false if you pass a null
> into equals(), but throws NPE if you pass null into compareTo(). The
> Javadoc on it's compareTo() doesn't mention nulls much less NPE. The
> Javadoc on Comparator mentions it'll return NPE by default for a
> null, but any time I write a custom Comparator I return 1 for
> compareTo() if argument is null.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Comparable.html#compareTo-T-


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Why not String compare? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-08-26 09:00 -0700
  Re: Why not String compare? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-08-26 18:49 +0200
    Re: Why not String compare? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-08-26 10:09 -0700
      Re: Why not String compare? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-08-26 22:48 +0200
        Re: Why not String compare? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-08-26 13:55 -0700
          Re: Why not String compare? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-08-26 17:29 -0400
          Re: Why not String compare? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 22:20 -0700
          Re: Why not String compare? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-08-31 08:17 +0200
            Re: Why not String compare? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2016-08-31 09:45 +0000
              Re: Why not String compare? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-08-31 19:24 +0200
                Re: Why not String compare? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2016-09-01 10:17 +0000
                Re: Why not String compare? Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-09-02 18:29 +0200
  Re: Why not String compare? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-08-26 13:24 -0400
    Re: Why not String compare? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-08-26 10:48 -0700
      Re: Why not String compare? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-08-26 14:50 -0400
        Re: Why not String compare? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-08-26 12:19 -0700
      Re: Why not String compare? Lothar Kimmeringer <news200709@kimmeringer.de> - 2016-09-01 20:42 +0200
        Re: Why not String compare? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2016-09-01 17:57 -0400
    Re: Why not String compare? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-08-26 11:03 -0700
      Re: Why not String compare? Lothar Kimmeringer <news200709@kimmeringer.de> - 2016-09-02 21:54 +0200

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