Of course you should. No "look at this cool hack" exists that doesn't have a safer, easier to trace equivalent. Doesn't mean you won't find those hacks in a mi

Of course you should. No "look at this cool hack" exists that doesn't have a safer, easier to trace equivalent. Doesn't mean you won't find those hacks in a million code bases used in production, though, and a professional knowledge of "yeah.. okay that's possible, but come on" isn't a bad thing to have.