Blogpost about the T.init problem

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On Wednesday, 11 July 2018 at 07:35:24 UTC, FeepingCreature wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 July 2018 at 07:30:59 UTC, FeepingCreature 
> wrote:
>> Then just stick it in a Nullable. No explicit .init needed.
>
> To clarify this point some more, since on reflection it's 
> ambiguous: you might well say that "well yeah, the default 
> constructor returns an invalid value, no shit it breaks." The 
> semantics of Nullable are weird here though - Nullable!S 
> constructs an S while pretending to not contain an S. The 
> deeper problem is that there is straight up *no way* to 
> implement Nullable correctly in a way that lets it handle types 
> with @disabled this();

I hate to say I told you so, but... 
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/5855#issuecomment-345783238

Just joking, of course =)

Nullable has needed to be completely overhauled for a long time 
because it was only really designed with POD types in mind.