Spec#, nullables and more

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Fri Nov 5 19:06:49 PDT 2010


Denis Koroskin wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:44:58 +0300, Walter Bright 
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>
>> To eliminate null pointers is the same as shooting the canary in your 
>> coal mine because its twitter annoys you.
> 
> I'm tired of pointing out that NO ONE is talking about eliminating null 
> pointers, but rather extending an existing type system to support 
> non-nulls. Your hate towards non-nullables comes from misunderstanding 
> of the concept.

I've decided that I should stick my neck out and write up a blog post about 
this. So stay tuned, armed with roses or bricks as apropos.


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