C and C++ could have non_nullable pointers, easily
C and C++ could have non_nullable pointers, easily
Posted Aug 21, 2009 19:10 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: C and C++ could have non_nullable pointers, easily by dgm
Parent article: Null pointers, one month later
Yes, those changes would make the idea genuinely useful. They'd also break
compatibility with almost all previous code: this from a language so
conservative that by word-of-dmr the precedence of && and || was
intentionally set wrong so as to avoid breaking code running on three
sites :)
compatibility with almost all previous code: this from a language so
conservative that by word-of-dmr the precedence of && and || was
intentionally set wrong so as to avoid breaking code running on three
sites :)
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