On Wednesday, 24 January 2018 at 19:12:50 UTC, Steven
Schveighoffer wrote:
While I understand your argument, the truth is that avoiding
null dereferencing *statically* has to be built into the
language from the beginning. As D is already too far along to
retrofit this, your 2 options are:
a) instrument the code, as Jonathan suggests (every dereference
checks for null ahead of time).
b) restrict your code, design, and functions that you use to
ensure null pointers cannot happen.
There's also:
c) Improve/split the language by introducing -dip25 / -dip1000
and hope that people interested in memory safety will migrate
their code to it.
