On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 21:39:54 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote:
On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 21:16:08 UTC, Stanislav Blinov
wrote:
On Saturday, 3 June 2017 at 20:53:05 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner
wrote:
Quite, but if you backtrack to my initial statement, it was
about ptr not being/becoming null (implicitly) in the first
place, which *might* allow you to skip the check (if you
don't set it to null via external means, such as memcpy,
move, etc).
It's only true as long as you have full control of the source.
Once you're using libraries and generic code, it's possible
that it's out of your hands:
It's always true, because I explicitly wrote *might*, not
*will*, to indicate that it depends on your use case. Your
example is a common use case where you can't skip the check.
Programmers and their tight-binding logic...
- Honey, please buy a loaf of bread. If there are eggs, buy a
dozen.
...
- Hello, do you have eggs?
- Yes.
- Dozen loaves of bread, please.
;)
