If your program's correctness depends on `nil` being handled this or that way, your design is broken. Fortunately, most programs aren't designed this way: messa

If your program's correctness depends on `nil` being handled this or that way, your design is broken. Fortunately, most programs aren't designed this way: messages to `nil` are seldom actually intended, whether the language's semantics considers them a legitimate operation or not, and whether they are “helpfully” trapped at runtime or not.