Re: Why does nobody seem to think that `null` is a serious problem in D?

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On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 at 00:30:44 UTC, Jordi Gutiérrez 
Hermoso wrote:
On Monday, 19 November 2018 at 21:57:11 UTC, Neia Neutuladh 
wrote:

[...]

What do you think about making the syntax slightly more 
explicit and warn or possibly error out if you don't do it that 
way? Either

  SomeClass c = null;

or

  SomeClass c = new SomeClass();

and nothing else.

[...]

Nulls/Nones are always a big gap in a language's type system. A 
common alternative is to have some Option/Maybe type like Rust 
or Haskell or D's Variant. How about making that required to 
plug the null gap?

You can give optional (https://code.dlang.org/packages/optional) 
a try and see if that works for you.