On Saturday, 4 January 2014 at 19:05:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/4/2014 5:49 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
Hence it is fine to claim that the lack of dereferenceable null pointers makes a
language safer, even though it has no bearing on memory safety.

I believe it is misusing the term by conflating safety with bug-free.

Dereferencing a null pointer is ALWAYS an error, just as dereferencing freed memory is.

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