On 1/17/14 4:21 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Saturday, 18 January 2014 at 00:12:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Yes, improving the language is in the cards. I have collected enough
hard evidence to convince myself that null references are a real and
important issue (previously I'd agreed with Walter who is considering
it not particularly remarkable).
Have they tried using a NotNull!T yet?
Not a D project (Java/Android). However there is work underway on a
static analyzer for Java. I cannot give exact stats, but we have
gathered extensive data that null pointer exceptions form a major, major
problem on Facebook's Android app, and that virtually all can be solved
by static analysis.
No amount of speculation and hypothesizing will talk me out of that.
Andrei
