I'm nearly ambivalent on them: I'm no programmer. On the one hand it looks like relying on behaviour that is correct now but may not be so in the future. On the other it is a little extra safety. It looks horrid. Its a nice mini hack.
Nahh: Too specific to one small potential source of error. Rely on this sort of nonsense and before you know it you'll be invoking magic. Use a decent IDE that looks out for it if you need reminding about this class of bug.
I'm nearly ambivalent on them: I'm no programmer. On the one hand it looks like relying on behaviour that is correct now but may not be so in the future. On the other it is a little extra safety. It looks horrid. Its a nice mini hack.
Nahh: Too specific to one small potential source of error. Rely on this sort of nonsense and before you know it you'll be invoking magic. Use a decent IDE that looks out for it if you need reminding about this class of bug.