'idiomatic' porting of c and or c++ code that does NULL checking

[Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 05:45:34 UTC, eles wrote:
> While this may be true in this case, I think that, in general, 
> you cannot draw such a clear line between what's recoverable 
> and what's not. If you really want to push things to the 
> extreme, the sole unrecoverable error shall be assertion 
> failure and the SIGKILL.
That's exactly the line I would draw.
_Nothing_ else is an error, so _everything_ is an exception.
Best forget about that something else even exist.