dereferencing null

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-03-05 11:38, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/4/2012 11:50 PM, Chad J wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure other languages like C# and Java get this right.
>> Haven't used
>> those two in a while though. Haxe... totally got this right. Also
>> Actionscript 3
>> by proxy. Hell, even Synergy/DE, the DIBOL (!!) derivative that I use
>> at work,
>> /gets this right/. I get stacktraces for null dereferences in these
>> languages.
>> It's /really/ convenient and useful. I consider D to be very backwards
>> in this
>> regard.
>
> Notably, C and C++ do not do what you suggest.

Just because C and C++ do something in a certain way doesn't make it a 
valid reason to do the same thing in D.

I think this is an argument we need to stop using immediately. It just 
shows we're stuck in our ways, can't innovate and can't think for our self.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg