Null

In announcing OkHttp's new URL class, I wrote about how parsing returns null instead of throwing exceptions: Instead, parse() just returns null when it doesn’t understand what you passed it. Several developers thought this was a lousy API. Derek Morr tweeted: "parse() just returns null" so, not sane. And Alex Hvostov redditted: Are you fucking kidding me? What is this, PHP? Well, the method return