On: Some thoughts on Go and Erlang

[lomnakkus]

You're talking about undefined behavior. There's no such thing as a null reference according to the C++ language specification.

[dbaupp → lomnakkus]

So? It's still possible to create one. (There's no such thing as dereferencing an invalid pointer according to the standard, but that still happens.)

[lomnakkus → dbaupp]

If it takes undefined behavior to create a "null reference" then by definition it's not possible to create one and still have a well-defined program. That is, you have bigger problems than "null references" to worry about.