Null references (oh no, not again!)

[Walter Bright]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> Exactly.  I thought one of the ideas behind D was to have "safe"
> defaults.  Yeah, I know, null references can't actually do damage to
> your computer because of virtual memory, but neither can concurrent
> access to shared data, or accessing uninitialized variables, but
> they're taken care of.

Those last two *are* unsafe, memory corrupting problems.