[RFC] Throwing an exception with null pointers

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 13/04/2025 9:48 PM, Ogion wrote:
> On Saturday, 12 April 2025 at 23:11:41 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
> Cattermole wrote:
>> I've been looking once again at having an exception being thrown on 
>> null pointer dereferencing.
> 
> Why `Exception` and not `Error`?

Neither of them.

The former has language specific behavior, and the latter has 
implementation specific behavior that isn't suitable for catching by 
read barriers.