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

[Walter Bright]

On 1/17/2014 6:56 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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.


I believe I have correctly separated the various null issues into 4 separate 
ones, and have tried very hard not to conflate them.