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On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 at 11:52:04 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Instead of the ugly and bug-prone mess of "read(fd, &size, 
> sizeof(int));" I have used something nicer. "tryRead!uint" 
> tries to read an uint, and returns a Nullable!uint. The "Maybe" 
> is a function currently missing in Phobos 
> (https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12679 ), it's used to 
> chain other functions on nullables, so bswap gets called only 
> if tryRead doesn't return a null value. If tryRead returns a 
> null, then Maybe returns a nulled Nullable (currently I think 
> "tryRead" is not present in Phobos, but it's not hard to add 
> something similar, using parse).

Hopefully we will eventually get a good Option range type in 
Phobos, and use it everywhere that is applicable. Even though I 
don't like Nullable that much, I wish it or an Option type were 
used wherever they could be throughout Phobos. This would make a 
lot of code a lot more safe... We're already partway there with 
ranges, which are almost monads.