Re: Null references redux

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Walter Bright wrote:

Justin Johansson wrote:

Walter, in the heat of this thread I hope you haven't missed the correlation with discussion

on "Dispatching on a variant" and noting:

Thanks for pointing it out. The facilities in D enable one to construct a non-nullable type, and they are appropriate for many designs.

No. There is no means to disable default construction.

I just don't see them as a replacement for *all* reference types.

Non-nullable references should be the default.


Andrei