I never said you wouldn't have to dereference and check the implementation. That's debugging. I said that it would make my intent clear. That I wrote the code b

I never said you wouldn't have to dereference and check the implementation. That's debugging. I said that it would make my intent clear. That I wrote the code below that line with the assumption that url is absolute and not specifically only the 'http://' http://' case. The abstraction here is about encapsulating and communicating my intentions.