Fixing C's Biggest Mistake

[Walter Bright]

On 1/2/2023 1:50 PM, claptrap wrote:
> That's a logically flawed argument because it rests on the assumption that the 
> only possible way to handle a null when converting from a nullable to a 
> non-nullable is to abort the program.

I never said "only possible way". However, it is the usual case. Now, if the 
*user* checks a pointer for null, and it isn't, then it won't seg fault from 
subsequent use.


> It's also a strawman because it also misses the point that its not about what 
> you do with the null, but knowing where they might get in. Statically knowing 
> where the external doors are.

Indeed, that is a difference. I've rarely had any actual trouble tracking it 
back to its source, though.