RE: [UM1-coders] NULL Pointers and stuff

[Peter C. <pet...@ne...>]

> From: Adrian St. John [mailto:AS...@pa...]
> Well, another day, another NULL pointer.

Surprise.

> 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).

I've always shied away from this beause it requires large,
not-quite-systematic changes; but it's needed doing for about the last eight
years.  If you can do it, that would be marvellous!

> 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.

I'm working on the Network Inference classifier.  Please don't touch it...
:-)

		- Peter