Nicolai Parlog • 1/31/2017

Why Elvis Should Not Visit Java

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The article critiques proposals to add a null-safe member selection operator (often mislabeled as the Elvis operator) to Java. The author argues that without a type system that makes all types non-nullable by default, such an operator would be detrimental to code correctness and readability by obscuring the root causes of null values.

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