Null references (oh no, not again!)

[Georg Wrede]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> bearophile wrote:
>> Georg Wrede:
>>
>> Thank you for your interesting notes on such aviation topics.
>>
>>> Contract Programming can be viewed as checklists on the micro level. 
>>> When you call a function, it goes through a list of things to check 
>>> before actually doing its job.
>>
>> In D such contracts are usually used during training flights only, in 
>> the real flight such check lists aren't used anymore :-)
> 
> I really wish the -release flag could be renamed to something else. 
> -unsafe or -nocontracts or something.

Yes. A finer grain would be prudent.