Re: Why Generics?

Mike Schilling wrote:

> > Perhaps you could require a cast before using a nullable type ?
> >
> > Nullable%Object a;
> > ...
> > a.toString(); // error
> > ...
> > Object ann = (Object)a;
> > ann.toString() // ok
>
> Sure, but this doesn't accomplish as much; it simply raises an exception
> when a reference is unexpectedly null, exactly the way Java does today,
> rather than madate (or at least encourage) code that processes a null
> correctly.

Fair point.

Though you /could/ make it throw a checked NullCastException or something like
that.

Just out of curiosity, would you like to see some sort of compile-time null
check added to the type system ?

-- chris



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