Re: Validity of cast(void*)size_t.max

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 02/28/2018 11:22 AM, Nordlöw wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 20:14:01 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
And to be sure, one can have an actual object that represents nullness 
and use its pointer. (Similar to "the null object pattern".)

Ali

Are there any pros to this pattern compared to just using `null` in D?

Instead of checking explicitly against null later on, you simply use the 
object and it has no side-effects. I've probably never used it myself 
but it sounds nice if it's applicable. :)

Ali