On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 22:39:40 UTC, Jacek Furmankiewicz
wrote:
Many other languages are starting to frown on returning null
values from methods (due to NullPointerException risks, etc)
and wrapping them instead in an Optional<T> like in
Scala:
http://blog.danielwellman.com/2008/03/using-scalas-op.html
Google Guava for Java: (now rolled into the base JDK for Java
8):
https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/UsingAndAvoidingNullExplained
Is there a similar approach in D? Or maybe an equivalent is in
a commonly used external library?
You may find this useful
http://www.m1xa.com/en/article/d-language-chained-null-checks-maybe-monad.html
