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If it's something that a majority of developers stumble on, then yes it's a problem.
Much in the same way NULL has been described as the Billion dollar mistake. NULL is a MUCH more simple concept to grasp than this. Yet now because we decide to use null, we have introduced an entire class of bugs into our application. All those lovely NullReferenceException bugs.
It doesn't matter how good of a programmer you are, YOU WILL run into NullReferenceException bugs.
Of course, there are ways to program without NULL. And this would eliminate that entire class of bug from your application. But we don't (myself included).
If we can program in a way that can completely eliminate entire classes of bugs, why would we choose not do to so?
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If it's something that a majority of developers stumble on, then yes it's a problem.
Much in the same way NULL has been described as the Billion dollar mistake. NULL is a MUCH more simple concept to grasp than
this. Yet now because we decide to use null, we have introduced an entire class of bugs into our application. All those lovelyNullReferenceExceptionbugs.It doesn't matter how good of a programmer you are, YOU WILL run into
NullReferenceExceptionbugs.Of course, there are ways to program without NULL. And this would eliminate that entire class of bug from your application. But we don't (myself included).
If we can program in a way that can completely eliminate entire classes of bugs, why would we choose not do to so?