Feb. 28, 2011
11:49 p.m.
Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
I just saw someone mention this on Twitter, and I know that I've been bitten by it before. Seems like it wouldn't break any existing code... The worst that could happen is that someone gets nonsensical strings in new code instead of an exception.
"I find it amusing when novice programmers believe their main job is preventing programs from crashing. ... More experienced programmers realize that correct code is great, code that crashes could use improvement, but incorrect code that doesn’t crash is a horrible nightmare." -- Chris Smith http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/an-old-article-i-wrote/ -- Steven