On Monday, 27 May 2013 at 07:53:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/27/2013 12:27 AM, deadalnix wrote:
Many people here have expressed real problem with null, a lot
of documentation
on the web exists about it as well, and most modern languages
try as hard as
possible to get rid of it (even sometime in creative way as
scala does as they
can't get rid of it completely because of java compatibility).
In D, right now (and especially with the beta) you can use the
NotNull template. Yes, there are still a couple holes in it
where a null initialization can slip through. But it catches
the obvious cases, certainly well enough to demonstrate what
value there is in non-null references, and you can use it now.
Mostly NonNull is just like mostly @safe .
