bearophile Wrote: > Regan Heath: > > > conceptually it's nice to be able to express (exists but is empty) and > > (does not exist). > > You may want to express that, but for the implementation of the language > those two situations are the same, because in the [] literal the ptr is null. > So I think it's better for the programmer to not differentiate the two > situations, because they are not different. If the programmer tells them > apart, he/she is doing something bad in D, creating a false illusion.
It's bad, when the language is driven by the implementation of a "reference" compiler by the copyright holder. This way compiler bugs and tricks become a language standard. See the story of VP7 codec.
