Comments on: There’s idiomatic, and there’s just being respectful

By: Phill Van Horn

Phill Van Horn — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:04:08 +0000

I think the point in the first example is that a c++ person clearly wrote the code because they are checking for successful DMA, but C# uses garbage collection and the new call will never return null. It’s evidence that the writer has no idea of even the basic differences between C# and C++.

Although, they probably weren’t a great C++ programmer either because new is practically a dirty word in C++. var foo = new foo() actually calls the constructor twice… unless foo is a pointer.

By: Rob Galanakis

Rob Galanakis — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:51:28 +0000

In reply to MrPingouin. It can never be null, the guard is always True.

By: MrPingouin

MrPingouin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:59:48 +0000

Hmmm… So what’s the point in the first example ?
It should be catched as a NullException ?

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:35:44 +0000

Apropos!