I don't like this… Is this cheating the language?

Question

I have seen something like the following a couple times... and I hate it. Is this basically \'cheating\' the language? Or.. would you consider this to be \'ok\' because the IsNu

Answer 1

You're taking advantage of a language feature known as short circuiting. This is not cheating the language but in fact using a feature exactly how it was designed to be used.