[RFC] Throwing an exception with null pointers

[Walter Bright]

On 4/16/2025 10:08 AM, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> We've lately been discussing what to do with Error on Discord, and so far it 
> seems like the discussion is going in the direction of it should either do what 
> assert does and kill the process with a function pointer in the middle to allow 
> configurability, or throw what I've dubbed a framework exception.

You can configure what assert() does via a command line switch.

 > Manu wanted something like this recently for identical reasons that me and 
Adam do.

Adam and I discussed this extensively at the last Coffee Haus meeting. I haven't 
talked with Manu about it.

Anyone can configure assert() to do whatever they want, after all, D is a 
systems programming language. But if it does something other than exit the 
process, you're on your own.