How is this an "Access Violation"

[Ruby The Roobster]

On Tuesday, 27 October 2020 at 02:05:37 UTC, Ruby The Roobster 
wrote:
> Following function when called throws an access violation. I 
> think it has to do with the assert statements, but I don't know 
> why.
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Okay. I messed up here. It should be: this.base = new atom(...) . 
I corrected that. The assert statements still don't work though.