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Episode 488: Chris Riccomini and Dmitriy Ryaboy on the Missing Readme

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Is There a Way to Get the Option to Fail at Run Time?

If you abuse optionals or ignore their intent, then certainly you can get runtime airs. But if you play by the rules and are diligent about it, you should, for the most part, be in much better shape. In our book, playe, almost everything is great. There's almost no absolutes in computer science. So it's hard to say for sure you're always going to be safe if you use option alls right. The way things evolve. Probably between us talking now and the episode coming out, there might be a new one. I first encountered this line of thinking through scola,. java has since adopted that superficially.

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