Ironically, given my previous entry, today I received the following in an email. Remember what I said about pretentious, self-absorbed, obsessed-with-their-own-genius programmers?

From Cunty Boss^TM regarding coding practices:

Thank you for the didactic treatment of this, and sorry to hear of your time spent chasing the problem down. In the same spirit, I must step in in defence of [developer], who should not have to code defensively against undeclared ideosyncracies. An interface should be an ideosyncracy-free construct, and the idiom reference.method().method() should be usable with certainty, unless otherwise indicated in the documentation. Generally, returning null in such an interface should be discouraged.

Translations on a postcard. I thank you.