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		masklinn on Dec 4, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NULL: The worst mistake of computer science? (2015... std::optional doesn't do that though, you can deref an empty optional and the result's the same as deref'ing an empty unique_ptr or a null pointer: UB.

basil-rash on Dec 4, 2018 [–]

But it makes you stop and thing before doing so. Thats the whole point.

masklinn on Dec 4, 2018 | [–]

It doesn't do that any more than a pointer

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