OT: First-Class Statistical Missing Values Support in Julia 0.7

[Bauss]

On Thursday, 21 June 2018 at 15:11:51 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> The Julia folks have done some interesting work with missing 
> values that I thought might be of interest [1, 2].
>
> Looks like it would be pretty easy to do something similar in D 
> with either unions or Algebraic. The time-consuming part would 
> be making sure everything works seamlessly with mathematical 
> functions.
>
>
>
> [1] https://julialang.org/blog/2018/06/missing
> [2] 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8spmca/firstclass_statistical_missing_values_support_in/

That was interesting. I wonder how it will be implemented as 
smooth in D, because it has to make sure everything that computes 
with empty is still empty and I believe it'll be a little 
challenging