>code smells This is one of the worst "ideas" ever in programming. It allows any programmer to shit on any other programmer's work in practically any arbitrary

>code smells This is one of the worst "ideas" ever in programming. It allows any programmer to shit on any other programmer's work in practically any arbitrary way they feel like. Your idea of returning default is considered by others here to be a "code smell" - if you want to call it that. Looks like using that term just doesn't give your idea any benefit the way you thought it would.