Is there anything other than nullable to work with optional types?

[aliak via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 26 December 2016 at 04:55:30 UTC, Seb wrote:
> Then help to push it forward!!
> There are many ways:
> - review the PR and point out anything problematic you see 
> (lack of reviews/interest  is a main reason why PRs get stalled)
> - post reasons and arguments for merging this PR (seems like 
> you have a couple of good real world examples - post them!)
> - revive the PR (it's quite old and the author probably lost 
> interest. There's absolutely nothing wrong with taking the diff 
> and resubmitting it - on the contrary that's often the only 
> possible way to revive/save old PRs)
> ...

Sure, will take a gander. Might try and revive if I feel up to it 
after reading through but I don't think I'm comfortable enough 
with D yet to do that. But lets see.