Talk:Void safety
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Proposed move to "Null safety"
[edit]Per WP:COMMONNAME, the phrase "null safety" is much more common than "void safety". 495000 Google hits for "null safety" and 4180 for "void safety". Also for me, the term "void safety" is unintuitive, in many languages the terms "null" and "void" mean different things (void type, void pointer, null pointer), and using "void safety" to mean "safety regarding null pointers" is confusing. It seems that "void safety" is predominantly a term of art in Eiffel which uses the keyword "Void" to represent a null pointer, only in that specific context does it make sense. Alextgordon (talk) 20:34, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
Aren't C++ references related to the same topic?
[edit]I don't see them mentioned anywhere on the page. Aren't they semantically related (unlike pointers, references can't be null)? 78.109.66.153 (talk) 19:36, 1 March 2023 (UTC)