Proposal : allocations made easier with non nullable types.

[Daniel Keep]

Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> How would you do this?
> 
> X x;
> 
> if(someCondition) {
>   x = new SomeX();
> } else {
>   x =  new SomeOtherX();
> }

One option is the "turn everything into an expression" route.  This is
what Nemerle (think a functional superset of C#) did, and it's just
BEAUTIFULLY expressive.

> X x = if( someCondition ) new SomeX(); else new SomeOtherX();

Failing that, there's always this (note: didn't do a syntax check on
this :P):

> X x = ({if(someCondition)
>     return new SomeX();
>     else return new SomeOtherX();})();

Or something to that effect.

  -- Daniel