References in D

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:52:19 -0700
Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> once in a while, you get a null pointer/reference and something blows
> up, but that's very rare in my experience, so I can't help but think
> that people who hit issues with null pointers on a regular basis are
> doing something wrong.
> 

I don't think it's just people having trouble with null references. If
you're not getting null reference issues, then you're almost certainly
doing at least some work making sure to manually check for and handle
nulls when needed. That's effort that could be better directed
elsewhere.