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

I find it OK :) You're just making sure that you don't access a NULL variable. Actually, I always do such checking before doing any operation on my variable (also, when indexing collections and so) - it's safer, a best practice, that's all ..