Null references (oh no, not again!)

[Sean Kelly]

bearophile wrote:
> Georg Wrede:
> 
> Thank you for your interesting notes on such aviation topics.
> 
>> Contract Programming can be viewed as checklists on the micro level. 
>> When you call a function, it goes through a list of things to check 
>> before actually doing its job.
> 
> In D such contracts are usually used during training flights only, in the real flight such check lists aren't used anymore :-)

I really wish the -release flag could be renamed to something else. 
-unsafe or -nocontracts or something.