"retard" <r...@tard.com.invalid> wrote in message news:hkv5op$s4...@digitalmars.com... > Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:29:06 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> "Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message >> news:hkv1mg$s6...@digitalmars.com... >>> >>> Yes, there have been a couple long threads about that. Dereferencing a >>> null pointer is a bug, but not a security/safety issue. >>> >>> >> Right, it's just not worthwhile for a language to provide help avoiding >> bugs. > > Having such a language would cause unemployment among expensive > professional programmers. Thus not worth it. That's why non-nullable > types aren't even worth a try in an experimental branch of dmd unlike > 1000 times more useful features like built-in compiler support for > regular expressions, opFish or having an integrated email client.
opFish!!! Yes, I want it! :) Although that would beg the question of what would be the appropriate way to express gratitude for it if it were to get implemented: Option 1: Thanks for op the fish! Option 2: Thanks for all the opFish! Option 30: Icehouse (<--- Ok, that joke's probably *really* obscure)
