On Sunday, 24 May 2020 at 12:29:23 UTC, bauss wrote:
Dang, that sucks there is no proper way and I would say that's
a big flaw of D.
Because what I need it for is for some data serialization but
if the value is an empty array then it should be present and if
it's null then it should not be present.
Since null is used to say "ignore this" in the data
serialization.
Oh well.
If you want to avoid the memory cost of `Nullable`, I think you
could still have a special value for "no data". But I wouldn't
use D `null` for it, because it's so common for it to be used for
empty values. Instead, I'd define a small data section somewhere.
You test whether the array points to it (`&arr[0] ==
&nullSection[0]`), and if, it means no data.
