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[Robert Fraser]

Janice Caron wrote:
> Of course, what I'd /really/ prefer is a runtime check (in debug
> builds only, of course) for all null dereferences. I see it as
> basically the same as array bounds checking - for speed, you don't
> want it in a final release, but during development, you sacrifice the
> speed and let the compiler help out. That would be useful, because not
> only would it catch ==null, but it would also catch .member and
> .func(), and you'd get a nice error message telling what line of what
> file threw the exception.

Emphatic "me too".