Non-null objects, the Null Object pattern, and T.init

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/17/14 5:58 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> I strong, strongly, disagree with the notion that critical systems
> should soldier on once they have entered an invalid state. Such is
> absolutely the wrong way to go about making a fault tolerant system. For
> hard evidence, I submit the safety record of airliners.

You're arguing against a strawman, and it is honestly not pleasant that 
you reduced one argument to the other.

Andrei