On 2/3/14, 10:22 PM, deadalnix wrote:
On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 06:03:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 2/3/14, 9:09 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I truly hope that that's never the case. Adding non-nullable
references to the
language is one thing; making them the default is quite another, and
making
them the default would break existing code. And given Walter's normal
stance
on code breakage, I'd be very surprised if he were in favor of making
non-
nullable references or pointers the default.
We are considering making non-nullables the default, @nullable to mark
optionally null objects, and enable the related checks with an opt-in
compiler flag.
Andrei
That would be awesome. The breakage involved, is quite high however.
No breakage if the opt-in flag is not used.
Andrei
