Disabling nilobjectchecking

[Charles Yeomans]

When you call an object method using a nil object reference, REALbasic 
raises a NilObjectException.  If, however, nilObjectChecking is set to 
false in a pragma statement, what should happen?  What does happen is 
that the method is called and executes, and RS says that this is the 
correct behavior.  Upon reflection it appears that this isn't so 
unreasonable; I suppose at some level this is equivalent to calling the 
method with (secret) first parameter nil.    So is the real danger here 
that a method called on a nil reference might attempt to access object 
properties?  These are I believe available via pointer navigation from 
the object address, but when the address is 0...

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Charles Yeomans

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