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Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> wrote:
> And that the crashes at least shine a light on
> them forcing people to consider whether that is indeed the case?
>
> (IDK if that's actually the case, I'm asking :))

All I was saying is that if the getters were more tolerant a few crash
bugs could have been avoided.