On Tuesday, 6 November 2012 at 22:00:47 UTC, Namespace wrote:
No offense. :) But if you came from C++: didn't you miss (not-null) references?
You could perform trickery and create null references in C++ and the compiler would not catch it, but you'd have to intentionally mess around and do dangerous things.
I do agree that not null references is an item D could really use. Of course you'll need to also allow nullable references too because that is also extremely useful, so really what you want is ability to pick and choose which references are guaranteed to never be null and which can be null. By default it should be not nullable. There was a thread in here on this topic not long ago, but Im not so sure we'll get to see it in D any time soon.
--rt
