Java updates

[Nick Sabalausky]

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
news:ghrj09$205a$1 at digitalmars.com...
> - Null dereference expressions - Null checks with '?' syntax similar to 
> Groovy... lettign developers avoid a nest of null checks. (This will 
> probably come in D too, sooner or later).

This is something Java desparately needs, as damn near everything in Java is 
nullable. I'm not sure I would argue against it in D, but I would say Java 
has much more of a need for it than D does. I was looking at the 
ANTLR/StringTemplate code a few weeks ago (it's written in Java) and there 
were so many null checks all over the place that I felt like I was looking 
at code from the time before exceptions replaced errors-as-return-values.