== Quote from Jonathan M Davis (jmdavisp...@gmail.com)'s article > There are > quite a few people who want Walter to put in null checks in at least debug > mode, > but he's against it and no one has been able to convince him. So, as far as > null > goes, you're in essentially the same boat as you're in in C and C++, which is > a > major step back in comparison to C# or Java, much as a lot of the rest of D > is a > step forward. > - Jonathan M Davis
I completely agree that null checks belong in debug mode, but whoever thinks they belong in release mode as you imply has absolutely no concept of what it means to be a systems programming language. If somehow null checks ended up in release mode, I'd fork the language over it because it would be way too much performance overhead for a systems language when I didn't ask for it.
