On 05/02/2008, Janice Caron <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> /But/, this is what it would change to under your scheme:
> <snip>
...and that code had a bug in it! (Who else spotted it?) It can fail
with the assignment
a = a;
It can also fail if either a or b is null.
See, this is harder than you think.