There's a threshold where it's just easier to write a patch than to file a bug. It's more likely to result in a fix, but it can be more labour intensive.
I don't know where the line is. It seems to depend on the community's interest in patches, and whether you have commit privs.
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It's so hard to talk about probabilities. Casual conversation often conflates 'the likelihood of an event happening' with 'how strongly I believe in my assessment'.
For example, I'm very confident (say 90%) that the coin in my pocket is 50% likely to land on heads.
> If you work on PLs long enough, you will develop a finely honed skill at creating bizarre programs like this that are technically valid but likely to trip up an implementation written by someone with a less perverse imagination than you.
"If it compiles it probably works" is definitely more common in some languages.
What PL features make this more likely?
My current theory is that pattern matching on enums with exhaustiveness checking is the primary cause. Especially when null has been replaced with Option.