Robert Bradshaw wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> 
>> Lisandro Dalcin wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>> A possible backward way could be to  introduce (slightly) new syntax,
>>> something like <SomeType??>, i.e using two '?' to indicate a
>>> "stronger" type check disallowing None...
>> That would be spelled <SomeType?!>
>> :)
> 
> Well, or one could use the nonecheck directive. I'd like to avoid  
> adding more syntax for a problem that'll go away with a smarter  
> compiler.

+1

I also think that the chance of breaking code with this change is rather
small. I can't imagine that many use cases where I would cast a value to a
specific extension type other than accessing its C attributes or methods,
which would clearly lead to a crash for None values. So however people used
this feature before, I expect a None check to be very close in the code.

Stefan
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