“It is sometimes more convenient and less ambiguous to have a NULL object than to use Java’s null value. JSONObject.NULL.equals(null) returns true. JSONObject.NULL.toString() returns “null”.”
from the JSONObject Java documentation.
This doesn’t make much sense to me, though; JSONObject.NULL is an Object, and therefore logically can’t be equal to null, particularly because that equality check lacks transitivity (that is, JsonObject.NULL.equals(null) is true, but null.equals(JsonObject.NULL) is a compiler error or null pointer exception).
Also, it just feels really gross to me.
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