On Sunday, April 01, 2018 22:06:57 Boris-Barboris via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Sunday, 1 April 2018 at 15:54:16 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer > > wrote: > > I currently have a situation where I want to have a function > > that accepts a parameter optionally. > > I would simply use a pointer for this. Fighting D grammar seems > too much of a hassle for such simple task.
How would a pointer help? Instead of doing foo(nullable(42)) he'd have to do foo(new int(42)) which is just one character shorter and ends up allocating on the heap, unlike with Nullable. - Jonathan M Davis
