Null references redux

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Walter Bright
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

>> And what about the people who AREN'T complete idiots, who maybe
>> sometimes just accidentally trip and would quite welcome a safety rail
>> there?
>
> Null pointer seg faults *are* a safety rail. They keep an errant program
> from causing further damage.

If you haven't crawled out from under your rock in the last twenty
years, I'd like to point out that the accepted definition of safety
and program correctness has changed since then.