Opportunities for D

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/10/2014 6:51 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 7/9/14, 11:59 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 19:50:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>>> 8. NotNull!T type
>>>>>
>>>>> For those that want a non-nullable reference type. This should be
>>>>> doable
>>>>> as a library type.
>>>> No.
>>>
>>> Rationale?
>>
>> Please, we've gone through this again and again and again and again.
>
> Yes, the arguments come and go by in forum discussions. To avoid this we need a
> well-written DIP that has a section illustrating the insufficiencies of library
> solutions, and then proposes the few needed additions to the language that make
> the thing work properly. Other language communities have done this with good
> results.

Yup. Otherwise this will come up again and again and again and again. :-)