Thoughts about D

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 04:21:20 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 11/29/17 10:29 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Another issue (I should check this again) was doing null 
>> checks on member function calls, which is not necessary since 
>> if they're null it'll seg fault.
>
> Just happened last release.
>
> https://dlang.org/changelog/2.077.0.html#removePreludeAssert
>
> -Steve

That was specifically for constructors and destructors (i.e. 
(cast(Foo)null).__ctor() was the only way to trigger that assert) 
not member functions (of classes), which I believe is still part 
of the compiler.