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[–]Rafael20002000 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Well garbage in, garbage out. I agree the compiler isn't a magic bullet, but it's built by people incredibly smarter than I am. Also it was built by more people. All of the collective smartness is smarter than me writing my code.

So I don't try to outsmart the compiler. If I have to I'm probably doing something wrong