Adding the ?. null verification

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jun 22 01:15:46 PDT 2014


On 6/21/14, 3:38 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 03:26:45PM -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 6/19/14, 1:29 PM, Etienne wrote:
>>> writeln(currAssignment.safeDeref.typeInfo.ident.or("meh"));
>>
>> "or" is really nice and terse. I think we should add that to std.
>> safeDeref isn't the best choice of name.
> [...]
>
> What's your suggestion?

That we add "or" to std and find a name for safeDeref that doesn't use 
the word "safe" in a confusing manner. -- Andrei



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