Non-null objects, the Null Object pattern, and T.init

[Kapps]

On Sunday, 19 January 2014 at 02:33:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> You elided the qualification "If it is a critical system". dmd 
> is not a safety critical application.

Nor are 99.99%, possibly 100%, of the applications currently 
being built with D. The points are valid, no safety critical 
application should ever rely on any individual components not 
failing. But for the purpose of D, they are not particularly 
applicable. People are just arguing over two different things 
(safety critical code vs standard D code), with neither 
disagreeing with the others, simply bringing up different 
situations.