If it's written spartan style, yes. If you go nuts with its dark corners things do get wierd. It's why it's a hard labour to write safely - and a contributing reason to JVM success.

It's the mother of all, and abusing it in ways that make it unpredictable is more than likely.

If you have to add that qualifier, then is it really a predictable like language?

I don't see a problem with proper use of qualifiers.

It has to be said that I'm a "right tool for the job" kind of man, and spend less time worrying about the perfect-ness of a language. Can't think of a better language to write crypto/network routing code with. Though a colleague did implement some mDNS craziness with java.

Don't shoot me. Heh.