== Quote from Justin Johansson (n...@spam.com)'s article > Given that if a function should return something, > and that function may return null in, at least > reference type return scenarios, one would expect that > "null" has a type. > What is the type of "null" in the D typesystem? > - JJ
I see it as a polysemous value, kind of like 1. typeof(1) is int. auto foo = 1; makes foo an int. However, the literal 1 can be assigned to any integral type, even ones that an int can't be. Similarly, null can be assigned to class references and pointers to any type, even though a void* can't be.
