From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-06-26T02:11:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it considered Harmful?

[snip] 
> No code should "expect" data to be there that isn't.  If a C extension wraps a
> native C struct as a Ruby object with Make_Struct, then when it unwraps it,
> and gets nothing or a NULL pointer, it shouldn't continue to try and use it.
> That's sloppy coding.
> 
>        Sean O'Dell

I agree with you about it being sloppy programming, but then again,
part of the reason that I write code in Ruby (and Python, Java, C#,
Perl, etc.) is so that I can be a little sloppy, without getting
segfaults or buffer overruns. Programming in C seems to consist mostly
of wrapping unsafe calls in error checks and handlers; I would hate to
see Ruby become similarly burdened due to low-level hacks like #class=
or #become entering the langauge core.

Lennon