"John Nagle" <nagle@animats.com> wrote in message
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>    We need a popular implementation that checks for null references
> just to put a stop to this.

I bumped into this one just last night, in some third-party code... Intel
C++ 5.0 for Linux complained about the explicit creation of a NULL
reference. I don't know if Intel C++ qualifies as "popular".

I'm going to have to rewrite this mess, which *relies* on "NULL references";
it looks like some old C code wrapped in C++ classes by someone who didn't
understand references. Yuck... but at least Intel C++ recognized the problem
and reported it to me!

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   We need a popular implementation that checks for null references
just to put a stop to this.

     John Nagle
     Animats

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