Re: Non-null objects, the Null Object pattern, and T.init

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2014-01-18 07:10, Walter Bright wrote:

BTW, the following program:

   class C { int a,b; }

   int test() {
     C c;
     return c.b;
   }

When compiled with -O:

   foo.d(6): Error: null dereference in function _D3foo4testFZi

It isn't much, only working on intra-function analysis and only when the
optimizer is used, but it's something. It's been in dmd for a long time.

Why only when the optimizer is used?

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/Jacob Carlborg