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Rodrigo Garc�a wrote:
> But imagine a list of access types, even if some of them have 
> the value null, you might want to return that value as well (it is not 
> that they are not in the list).

Sorry, this argument is quite stupid from my part... you do not have to 
use the "null" keyword then, just return the object. Maybe I will have 
to rethink the possibility of using exceptions...

Rodrigo