VB.NET lets you write functions that don’t have explicit return statements, it just returns a default value (false if it’s a boolean function). Every other language i’ve ever seen gives you a compile error, but no clearly it would be easier to act erratically.
April 15, 2006
VB.sucks part 2
VB.sucks
VB.NET doesn’t do short circuit evaluation unless you use the “OrElse” and “AndAlso” operators. It took me 10 minutes of bug tracking to find the bug caused by the lack of that language feature.