Remus

[Rob T]

On Tuesday, 6 November 2012 at 22:00:47 UTC, Namespace wrote:
> No offense. :)
> But if you came from C++: didn't you miss (not-null) references?

You could perform trickery and create null references in C++ and 
the compiler would not catch it, but you'd have to intentionally 
mess around and do dangerous things.

I do agree that not null references is an item D could really 
use. Of course you'll need to also allow nullable references too 
because that is also extremely useful, so really what you want is 
ability to pick and choose which references are guaranteed to 
never be null and which can be null. By default it should be not 
nullable. There was a thread in here on this topic not long ago, 
but Im not so sure we'll get to see it in D any time soon.

--rt