NotNull pointers

[Timon Gehr]

On 08/31/2011 11:24 PM, Christophe wrote:
> Maybe think assert should not be rewritten, but opCast!(bool) should
> test if the class reference is null, which would be consistent with
> opEquals

It actually does:
class C;
C x;
// assert(x&&1); // no segfault
assert(x); // segfault

The problem is that assert(classref); is special cased to segfault on 
invalid class references.