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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Access parameters and accessibility
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 22:24:11 +0100
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On 16.12.14 21:47, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> What we've actually talked about is giving up on these checks and just
> letting misuse be erroneous. Most people don't want to go there if we don't
> have to, but since we already go there for Unchecked_Deallocation, we're
> already there. Proper dangling pointer checks would be too expensive, sadly
> (especially for non-allocated objects).

I imagine seeing future subprogram specs look like

   procedure I_Know_what_I_am_doing
      (Param : not null unchecked_access Typ);


ARGh ;-)