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

There is nothing wrong with this, as you just want to make certain you won't get a nullpointer exception.

I think it is reasonable to do.

With Extensions you can make it cleaner, but the basic concept would still be valid.