Re: Null pointers
I would argue that if you are doing a technical code review in a technical capacity then you ought to familiarize yourself with pointer/reference semantics for the language at hand.
But I also think that you are 110% right about readability. For such a core feature, I find it encouraging that they are willing to flag it as something they want to do, yet will defer until they have the feature and syntax better figured out. Easier to add stuff to a language than to take it out and harder yet to correct bad syntactic choices later on.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
