[RFC] Throwing an exception with null pointers

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 14/04/2025 9:45 AM, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> 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.

err, thrown by read barriers and then caught.