Re: [Vala] Heads-up on upcoming non-null support

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 16:20 -0400, Michel Salim wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:
>
> >  Short example:
> >  
> >     public void foo (Bar bar) {
> >       // bar is expected to be non-null
> >       // will be enforced at run-time in future Vala versions
> >     }
> >
> >     public void foo (Bar? bar) {
> >       // bar is allowed to be null
> >     }
> >
> >  Any questions or comments about this?
> Presumably a compile-time check is also performed on return values? e.g.
>
> public Bar foo () {
>   return null;
> }
>
> should fail.

Yes, that will be the case.

> What if the nullity of the value cannot be determined at compile time?
> Enforce that the return type must have '?' ?

The compiler will report a warning. If you're sure that it'll always be
non-null, you can add an explicit cast or assert to avoid the warning.
We'll only enable the warnings by default when we have a sensible
non-null analysis and we'll probably also add an option to disable the
warnings.

Jürg