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Re: The null reference
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Fri May 26 17:21:23 1995
Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 13:28:21 -0700
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
Hi Jeremy,
> The Spec:
> 4.6.3 The null Reference
>
> The keyword null is a predefined constant that represents
> "no instance." null can be used anywhere an instance is
> expected and can be cast to any class type.
>
> Does this mean that "null" will be implicitly cast (widened) to
> whatever type is required? that is, it's not identical to being
> of type Object because that won't be implicitly widened.
Exactly.
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Arthur van Hoff (avh@eng.sun.com)
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