Coverity tool
Nick Sabalausky
a at a.a
Wed Feb 10 13:07:53 PST 2010
"retard" <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:hkv5op$s4n$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:29:06 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message
>> news:hkv1mg$s6e$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>
>>> Yes, there have been a couple long threads about that. Dereferencing a
>>> null pointer is a bug, but not a security/safety issue.
>>>
>>>
>> Right, it's just not worthwhile for a language to provide help avoiding
>> bugs.
>
> Having such a language would cause unemployment among expensive
> professional programmers. Thus not worth it. That's why non-nullable
> types aren't even worth a try in an experimental branch of dmd unlike
> 1000 times more useful features like built-in compiler support for
> regular expressions, opFish or having an integrated email client.
opFish!!! Yes, I want it! :)
Although that would beg the question of what would be the appropriate way to
express gratitude for it if it were to get implemented:
Option 1: Thanks for op the fish!
Option 2: Thanks for all the opFish!
Option 30: Icehouse (<--- Ok, that joke's probably *really* obscure)
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