Hello Lutger,
BCS wrote:
Hello Lutger,
The answer may
depend on [...]
the habits of the 'programmers' in question, I don't know.
If you can't trust the programmer to write good code, replace them
with someone you can trust. There will never be a usable language
that can take in garbage and spit out correct programs.
Hi. I don't think this argument will work, for several reasons:
[...]
Do you maintain that a programmer who can't deal with non-nullable
references without hacking them away is unusually incompetent?
Incompetent? No. But I wouldn't want to hire a programer that *habitually*
(and unnecessarily) hacks past a feature designed to prevent bugs. The best
race car driver in the world is clearly not incompetent but would still get
a ticket on public roads for speeding or following to close.
I don't
know about this. Actually I suspect non-nullable references by default
are in the end safer (whatever that means), but only if they don't
complicate the use of nullable references.
I'll second that.
