All programming languages have quirks.. By following best practices, making regular code reviews, code refactoring and actually learning when/how to use THIS most of the problems can be avoided.
And what about those problems that survive all of the above?
Well in that case we have automated tests, unit tests and plain old manual tests.
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"Because that is the way we have always done it" is not a valid excuse.
"We put additional checks in to catch these problems" is backwards. You are treating the symptoms, not the cause. Write your code in a way that those problems are unable to exist.
If NULL is the Billion dollar mistake and this is magnitudes more complex than NULL. How much is this costing us?
It's time to think outside the brackets { }.
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All programming languages have quirks.. By following best practices, making regular code reviews, code refactoring and actually learning when/how to use
THISmost of the problems can be avoided.And what about those problems that survive all of the above?
Well in that case we have automated tests, unit tests and plain old manual tests.
"Because that is the way we have always done it" is not a valid excuse.
"We put additional checks in to catch these problems" is backwards. You are treating the symptoms, not the cause. Write your code in a way that those problems are unable to exist.
If NULL is the Billion dollar mistake and
thisis magnitudes more complex than NULL. How much isthiscosting us?It's time to think outside the brackets { }.
nothis