Lints, Condate and bugs

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Friday 29 October 2010 03:06:56 dennis luehring wrote:
> Am 29.10.2010 11:07, schrieb Denis Koroskin:
> > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:58:56 +0400, dennis luehring<dl.soluz at gmx.net>
> > No one is talking about removing nullable references but rather adding
> > non-nullable types and making them default. You could still achieve old
> > behavior if it is needed (most proposed proposed syntax):
> > 
> > Foo? foo = stuff.find(predicate);
> > if (foo is null) {
> > 
> >       // not found
> > 
> > }
> > 
>  > No one is talking about removing nullable references
> 
> sorry
> 
>  > most proposed proposed syntax
> 
> like it works in C# - but better because of "...and making them default."
> :)
> 
> sound very similar to the long talked about "make parameters const per
> default" proposal - which is also still not there :(

Personally, I think that both would be horrible. Having const is great, and 
having non-nullable references could be great, but I sure wouldn't want them to 
be the default. In addition to that, however, having them as the default would 
make porting code from other C-based languages a total nightmare - not to 
mention it totally shatters the general principle that either C/C++ code is 
valid D code with the exact same behavior it doesn't compile. That alone makes 
making them the default untenable.

- Jonathan M Davis