On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 15:06 +0100, Jiří Zárevúcky wrote: > Sam Wilson píše v Čt 25. 02. 2010 v 21:43 -0500: > > Looks great, but I can't get it to compile with experimental non null > > since the ?? operator is returning an 'int?' > > > > That's a bug. ?? should have the second operand's type. >
Okay, good, I thought I might have been going crazy. Has it been reported yet? > > IMHO, as nice as this solution is, it seems a bit hackish for a language > > that claims to support non-null types. > > Remember that non-null checking is experimental. That means it's not > supposed to be complete and bug-free at this point. I don't mean the checking for null, which I expect to be buggy. I am referring to the language itself, which seems to have very few constructs for dealing with NN types. > > Overall, Vala provides very few > > features that make N.N. types more attractive compared to regular types > > and personally I find them a pain to work with > > > > Nobody's forcing you. It's an experimental feature you need to > explicitly turn on. You have chosen to do so, you must bear the > consequences - bugzilla awaits you :-P I am not familiar enough to know when something is a bug, or when it is a "feature", hence why I am here :) I simply think that for NN types to become widely used, they should be convenient. Having to define a method in every project that converts between a nullable type and a NN type is slightly repetitive, and not really convenient, hence why I proposed a new operator.
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