Null references redux

[language_fan]

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:04:06 +0200, Yigal Chripun thusly wrote:

> segfaults are *NOT* a good mechanism to handle errors. An exception
> trace gives you a whole lot more information about what went wrong and
> where compared to a segfault.

Indeed, especially since in the case of D half of the userbase has a 
broken linker (optlink) and the other half has a broken debugger (gdb). I 
much rather write non-segfaulting applications in a language without 
debugger than buggy crap and debug it with the world's best debugger.