Null references redux

grauzone none at example.net
Sat Sep 26 14:33:37 PDT 2009


Walter Bright wrote:
> It is exactly analogous to a null pointer exception. And it's darned 
> useful.

On Linux, it just generates a segfault. And then you have no idea where 
the program went wrong. dmd outputting incorrect debugging information 
(so you have troubles using gdb or even addr2line) doesn't really help here.

Not so useful.



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