Introducing Nullable Reference Types in C#. Is there hope for D, too?

[rumbu]

On Friday, 17 November 2017 at 06:32:03 UTC, codephantom wrote:
> On Friday, 17 November 2017 at 05:50:24 UTC, rumbu wrote:
>> You are not ending with nothing, you are ending with a run 
>> time error in D. In C# it's a compile-time error. Ideally, 
>> something ending for sure in an error at run time, must be 
>> catch at compile-time.
>
> Well.. sometimes it's just nice...to do nothing, and I'm glad D 
> lets me do that.
>
> And the runtime should just stay out of it. It's always 
> interfering in something - even when its nothing.

I don't even imagine how the runtime can stay out of 
dereferencing a null pointer.

I know your aversion towards C#, but this not about C#, it's 
about safety. And safety is one of the D taglines.