On Saturday, 28 November 2015 at 06:59:35 UTC, bitwise wrote:
Classes/real-ref-types dont act as you're describing
They do, actually.
class Collection(E) { ... }
Collection!E a; // null reference
auto b = new Collection!E(); // reference to empty collection
The only outlier is the associative array, which lazily
initializes when operations are performed on null references.
