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"hardly even an error" not "hardly ever an error". in other words, NULL pointer errors are a trivial error to deal with.
by TickleSteve 8y ago
"hardly even an error"
not
"hardly ever an error".
in other words, NULL pointer errors are a trivial error to deal with.
- taco_emoji 8y agoThey're even easier to deal with if your type system guarantees you can never get them in the first place.
- cultus 8y agoBut yet it is the most common type of bug, even in production. Clearly, it's not that easy to deal with for human programmers. What's the problem with letting the compiler help you?