[UM1-coders] NULL Pointers and stuff

[Adrian S. J. <AS...@pa...>]

Well, another day, another NULL pointer.

For your information, latest release (and 'running' version) is um1_004,
which consists entirely of NULL pointer fixes since the last release.

As this is a reoccuring nightmare (I feel I'm typing value_or_empty in
my sleep!), I propose to overhaul the game to use a custom string class
(not std::string because it is overkill) that handles NULL pointers
gracefully (ie it returns an empty string).

Of course this is going to take a while to implement, and I will be
touching
every file, so if anyone is working on anything big, please tell me and
I'll
avoid touching the necessary files until they've been checked in.

Adrian.

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