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Re:What if null was an Object in Java? by Defletter on Sunday April 28, 2024 @12:50PM (#40189892)
Yup. Your IDE will likely highlight it as an issue, but it's totally legal to return a null Optional. There's nothing special about it, it's just a wrapper class.
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Re:What if null was an Object in Java? by alkonaut on Sunday April 28, 2024 @12:55PM (#40189934)
Did the project to add value types to Java (I’m sure I heard of it a decade ago) never finish?
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Re:What if null was an Object in Java? by Defletter on Sunday April 28, 2024 @01:00PM (#40189974)
Not yet, that's Project Valhalla iirc. It's coming along but hasn't been merged yet. I don't believe it's even a preview feature within the JDK yet.
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Re:What if null was an Object in Java? by steve_rambo on Sunday April 28, 2024 @05:23PM (#40192099)
https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla
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