The Logical Disaster of Null

Re:The Logical Disaster of Null by TheCoelacanth on Thursday May 10, 2018 @10:34AM (#17039166)

Neither of those is hard to do in C++. The first one is std::optional. The second one is a reference or a non-nullable smart pointer like https://github.com/dropbox/nn

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Re:The Logical Disaster of Null by frabert on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:28AM (#17045148)

It's easy to do _since less than a year_

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Re:The Logical Disaster of Null by jandrese on Friday May 11, 2018 @03:14PM (#17050067)

And probably not in your compiler yet. Or if it is, you'll blow up on thousands of other compilers when people try to build it themselves.

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Re:The Logical Disaster of Null by jcelerier on Sunday May 13, 2018 @05:27AM (#17058070)

boost::optional has been available since 2003. There's no excuse.

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