null references redux + Looney Tunes

[language_fan]

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:03:11 -0400, Nick Sabalausky thusly wrote:

> "Rainer Deyke" <rainerd at eldwood.com> wrote in message

> I've been thinking it might be nice to have both. Compile-time for
> obvious reasons but then also run-time ones that could do conversions:

> Although that would probably be far from trivial to design/implement.

Why? Because of the NIH syndrome? Just grab the O. Linde's sources from 
the ng archives and build the conversion function you mentioned above. 
It's not that hard to do..