Null references redux

[language_fan]

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:38:56 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu thusly wrote:

> Your code in
> Phobos reflects that perspective. In the RegExp class, for example, you
> very often define a variable at the top of a long function and
> initialize it halfway through it. I trivially replaced such code with
> the correct code that defines symbols just where they're needed.

Maybe Walter has not yet transitioned from the good olde Pascal/C style 
programming to the C++/D/Java style?