On Sunday, July 21, 2002, at 09:24 Uhr, David Simmons wrote:
I think the general pattern of allowing <nil> to silently eat arbitrary messages sent to it is a dangerous (*bad*) practice.
Why do you think so? I have been programming with message-eating <nil> for around 15 years and I do not find it dangerous in practice.
Marcel
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