Nullable!T with T of class type

[Nathan S.]

On Monday, 25 June 2018 at 22:58:41 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Java does try to force you to initialize stuff (resulting in 
> annoying false positives at times), but in general, it still 
> can't guarantee when a variable is null or not and is forced to 
> insert runtime null checks.

Java can be somewhat clever about this though. Often it just 
needs to perform a single null check in a method body and 
thereafter knows the pointer can't be null and elides the check.