D - Unsafe and doomed

[Walter Bright]

On 1/6/2014 7:01 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> I know. But his code will behave in random ways, not instant fail. This example
> show that the instant fail approach you seem to like is inherently flawed.

That code is broken whether types are nullable or not.


> Are you saying that dereferencing null must be undefined behavior, and not
> instant failure ? That contradict the position you gave before.

I've also said I think it is better to eliminate undefined behavior by defining it.