On Saturday, 18 January 2014 at 00:25:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
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
I remember mentioning that a year or two month ago, and you
dismissing it.
Happy to see you changed your mind on that.
