My personal policy is to assert early and assert often. I see many
functions taking pointer args and dereferencing them without checking
for NULL first. I know Walter likes to claim that dmd doesn't have any
NPEs because he is a careful coder; but the fact is, he is not the only
coder, and most functions don't explicitly document which arguments are
allowed to be NULL and/or when. Of course, it would be better for
non-null arguments to just pass by reference, but fixing that would be
quite disruptive in most cases (and outright infeasible in others, like
void*).
However, I also know that asserting in every function is a religious
issue for some, so I thought I would ask the dev community about
thoughts on this topic.
Dave
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