On Sunday, August 3, 2025, David Brown wrote:

>
>>
> What use would that be? If the programmer knows that a pointer in the
> function might be a null pointer, and wants to throw if that is the case,
> then the programmer can write "if (!p) throw nullptr;", or whatever suits
> their needs.
>


It would allow us to write one-liner functions like:

unsigned GetCOMportNumber(char const *const p)
{
    return stoul( strstr(p, "COM") + 3 );
}

and also to write a one-liner like:

    pInterface1->GetInterface2()->LastChild()->Release();

instead of:

    if ( nullptr == pInterface1 ) return;
    auto p = pInterface1->GetInterface2();
    if ( nullptr == p ) return;
    auto p2 = p->LastChild();
    if ( nullptr == p2 ) return;
    p2->Release();