Anything in D to avoid check for null everywhere?

[Christian Köstlin]

On 12.01.21 22:37, Jack wrote:
> I was looking for a way to avoid null checks everywhere. I was checking 
> the Null object pattern, or use something like enforce pattern, or even 
> if I could make a new operator and implement something like C#'s .? 
> operator, that Java was going to have one but they refused[1] (doesn't 
> behave exactly as C#'s actually), Kotlin also got something in this area[2]
> 
> What some D ways to avoid those checks?
> 
> [1]: 
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-March/000047.html
> [2]: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/null-safety.html#safe-calls
Did you have a look at https://code.dlang.org/packages/optional?
Especially https://aliak00.github.io/optional/optional/oc/oc.html might 
go in the right direction.


Kind regards,
Christian