On 1/17/2014 4:15 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
One problem with null is it's not "proportional response", i.e. it takes the application in the back and shoots it in the head instead of e.g. a stale display. That _does_ make null special; there's a large category of application for which aborting is simply not an option.
I'm aware of that, I was responding to the idea that null pointers are harder to track down once detected.
In particular, I don't see how a stale display is an easier bug to track down, although granted it is less annoying to the end user.
