Introducing Nullable Reference Types in C#. Is there hope for D, too?

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On Friday, 17 November 2017 at 14:53:40 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> Regardless, given that dereferencing null will segfault, it
> does not present an @safety problem.

"A notion of safety is always relative to some criterion".

If your code dereferences a null pointer, and the program 
segfaults, and that program is supplying me with the oxygen i 
need to survive...then its probably not safe ;-)