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haha, never thought about that checking for null thing as a decision they didn't make... But I finally understood that it's NOT an innate problem after working in Objective-C, which allows nulls to have methods called.

Dan Rosenstark
– Dan Rosenstark

2010-11-16 04:23:19 +00:00
Commented Nov 16, 2010 at 4:23
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null-checking is a much greater pain - you ALWAYS have to check - plus it does not tell the reason why, which a well-named exception does.

user1249
– user1249

2010-11-16 04:41:46 +00:00
Commented Nov 16, 2010 at 4:41

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