RE: [cp-patches] RFC: WeakHashMap improvement

[Jeroen Frijters]

Roman Kennke wrote:
> Friedjof Siebert did some improvements on 
> java.util.WeakHashMap that I'd
> like to check in. They are meant to improve reliability of 
> this class by enabling the prove of a cast and the absence of
> a null-pointer.

I don't understand the point of the instanceof. If somehow there is a
bug in the code that introduces a non-WeakBucket, surely the best thing
would be to throw a ClassCastException, not silently ignore it.

reliability != hiding errors

Regards,
Jeroen