Null references (oh no, not again!)

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Jason House wrote:
>> IMHO, this type of thing is easy to understand.
> 
> Yeah, well, I still get regular emails (for the last 20 years at least) 
> from the gamut of professional programmers at all levels of expertise 
> who do not understand what "undefined symbol" from the linker means. It 
> happens so often I am forced to consider the idea that the defect lies 
> with me <g>.
> 
> If I could figure a way to design *that* out of a linker, I would.

It's easy. Demangle the name of the symbol that you print an error 
about. I swear that that is the entire problem, right there.

Andrei