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 alanguage 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.