I am a huge proponent of great tools. But, tools are really only as good as the awareness of such problems (that can easily hide).
If there are any such particular pet problems that are mines waiting to go off, or problems you face on-and-off as a developers or team lead - I would love to hear about them. Cheers, -Vineet On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]>wrote: > That's lovely, but doesn't help at all when you inherit code that does it > wrong. :) > > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Jon Kiparsky <[email protected]>wrote: > >> "Also, knowing that Integers are objects isn't the problem, it's that == >> succeeds sometimes." >> >> That's for sure. I don't remember who said it, but this is a case of >> "syntactic sugar leads to cancer of the semicolon". I still say it's the >> programmers job to know the language, and part of that is knowing that >> object comparison with == is always wrong, even if the implementers have >> made a stupid decision to make it work for some arbitrary values. Really, >> it's not a particularly obscure or subtle fact about the language. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
