EqualsAvoidNull confused when passing null to equals about checkstyle HOT 4 CLOSED

equals(null) seems to be a bad style on its own - for me it is better to write "== null"

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Moreover - there is only two possible outcomes of this code - "equals(null)" - false and NPE.

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yes it is not a very good but it it not different from example in Doc:

should be refactored to:

String nullString = null;
"My_Sweet_String".equals(nullString);

read it as ""My_Sweet_String".equals(null);"

so should not be a problem, just to be consistent in validation. @isopov , does it make sense ?

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After discussion, we decided to not implement this, as null is kind of Literal, and developer have to do variable == null.

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