RAII pointers

[Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 20:25:22 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 20:13:30 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
>
>> Calling std.algorithm.move is explicit programmer intent, I 
>> consider that about as accidental as calling memcpy with a 
>> source full of zeroes.
>> In any case, having that check in the destructor is fairly 
>> cheap, so better safe than sorry (and include it).
>
> Yes, it's explicit. Destructor call is still implicit though, 
> and it better not be performing null dereference or something 
> equally nasty :)

Quite, but if you backtrack to my initial statement, it was about 
ptr not being/becoming null (implicitly) in the first place, 
which *might* allow you to skip the check (if you don't set it to 
null via external means, such as memcpy, move, etc).