On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:32:31 +0100, bearophile <[email protected]>
wrote:
The very good Mark C. Chu-Carroll has written a little blog post about
the lack of null-related errors in his Scala code:
http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath/2012/08/20/nulls/
This article links to:
http://beust.com/weblog/2012/08/19/a-note-on-null-pointers/
very early on. Which is also a good read, and has parallels with the NaN
discussion as well :p
I really like the Groovy/Fantom/Kotlin syntax shown:
[quote]
For example, here is how Kotlin lets you ignore null values encountered
along a chain of invocations:
bob?.department?.head?.name
If either of these accesses returns null, the result of this expression
will be null. No need to put your values into monadic boxes nor mapping
through them, just use the standard composition operator you are familiar
with if you are using a C family language.
[/quote]
I think this would be a neat D feature.
R
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