%u wrote:
> == Quote from Sean Kelly (sean@f4.ca)'s article
> 
>> However, different
>> people have different needs in this area.  Some may
>> want such functions to throw an exception on error,
>> others may want a return code, etc.
> 
> Out of interest, have you seen Andrei's "The Power of None" paper? Quite a cute
> approach to this problem, and IIRC it should be doable in D.

A bit difficult without copy semantics, but probably doable.  It's an interesting idea.


Sean