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Would you buy a car that explodes every time you start it unless you press the “don’t explode” button? And would you blame the people who get killed by this car for not reading the documentation?

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So not knowing how to use a function in programming language is equivalent to a car exploding? Man, your logic is broken in ways that actually hurt.

No, a function that does a wrong and dangerous thing by default unless you tell it otherwise is equivalent to a car exploding.

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