diff --git a/documentation/22.12/eiffel/Language_reference/void-safe-programming-eiffel/index.wiki b/documentation/22.12/eiffel/Language_reference/void-safe-programming-eiffel/index.wiki index d819899f..683eb72a 100644 --- a/documentation/22.12/eiffel/Language_reference/void-safe-programming-eiffel/index.wiki +++ b/documentation/22.12/eiffel/Language_reference/void-safe-programming-eiffel/index.wiki @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +[[Property:modification_date|Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:20:10 GMT]] +[[Property:publication_date|Mon, 23 Jan 2023 09:20:10 GMT]] [[Property:link_title|Void-safe programming]] [[Property:title|Void-safe programming in Eiffel]] [[Property:weight|10]] @@ -6,7 +8,7 @@ When you develop software in Eiffel, you can be assured (at compile time) that your system will not attempt (at run time) to apply a feature to a void reference -- or, in the terminology of other languages such as C, "dereference a null pointer". -Throughout the history of Eiffel, new capabilities -- agents, the SCOOP concurrency mechanism and many others -- have added considerable expressive power to the languag,e while causing minimum impact on existing software. Void-safe Eiffel is such an innovation, which instead of adding new mechanisms ''removes'' a major source of instability in programs, present in all other major languages: null-pointer dereferencing. To say that Eiffel is void-safe means that such catastrophic yet common errors simply will not occur. +Throughout the history of Eiffel, new capabilities -- agents, the SCOOP concurrency mechanism and many others -- have added considerable expressive power to the language while causing minimum impact on existing software. Void-safe Eiffel is such an innovation, which instead of adding new mechanisms ''removes'' a major source of instability in programs, present in all other major languages: null-pointer dereferencing. To say that Eiffel is void-safe means that such catastrophic yet common errors simply will not occur. There is in fact no need to speak of "void-safe Eiffel". The language is just Eiffel... and it is void-safe, just as it is statically typed. We still occasionally refer to "Void-safe Eiffel" simply because until 2005 or so Eiffel was not void-safe (it had to start somewhere), and you may still encounter older documentation that talks about "calls on void targets" (null-pointer dereferences). But in today's Eiffel such an event is impossible.