[jdom-interest] [Vote] NoSuchChildException

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 12:13 AM -0700 7/13/00, Alex Chaffee wrote:

>Element is a collection.  If a collection has no such element it
>returns null.  QED.
>

Your second premise is flawed, therefore the syllogism fails. The 
Java Collections API is extremely schizophrenic on what to do when no 
such element exists. Some methods return null. Some methods throw a 
NoSuchElementException. Some methods throw an 
IndexOutOfBoundsException.

In fact we originally went to throwing an exception by analogy with 
the Collections API, and I'm certain we changed 
NoSuchElementException to NoSuchChildException precisely to avoid the 
name conflict with java.util.NoSuchElementException.

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