Re: Newbie question - Disadvantages of java

From: Timo Kinnunen (timo.kinnunen_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 10/27/03 

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:56:15 +0200 (EET)

"Thomas G. Marshall"
<tgm2tothe10thpower@hotmail.replaceTextWithNumber.com> wrote:

> xarax <xarax@email.com> coughed up the following:
>
>> The reasoning is that "null" has a built-in type that implicitly
>> inherits from all reference types (the only case of multiple
>> inheritance), and is thus assignable to any reference type
>> and castable to any reference type.
>
> That's NOT "REASONING". That's factual information.
>
> My posts are discussing the /why/ and /what if/, not the /what
> is/.

Perhaps it serves as a hint to implementers to make null reference
such a special object and as a guarantee that this is legal. If null
didn't have a type, this technique would be far less obvious. 

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