On 10/10/12 09:12, thedeemon wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 07:28:55 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> Making sure that the aa has been properly initialized before passing
>> it to a function (which would mean giving it at least one value) would
>> make the ref completely unnecessary.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> Ah, thanks a lot! This behavior of a fresh AA being null and then
> silently converted to a non-null when being filled confused me.

Yes, it's confusing and annoying.
This is something in the language that we keep talking about fixing, but to date it hasn't happened.

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:40:24AM +0200, Don Clugston wrote:
> On 10/10/12 09:12, thedeemon wrote:
> >On Wednesday, 10 October 2012 at 07:28:55 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> >>Making sure that the aa has been properly initialized before passing it to a function (which would mean giving it at least one value) would make the ref completely unnecessary.
> >>
> >>- Jonathan M Davis
> >
> >Ah, thanks a lot! This behavior of a fresh AA being null and then silently converted to a non-null when being filled confused me.
> 
> Yes, it's confusing and annoying.  This is something in the language that we keep talking about fixing, but to date it hasn't happened.

How would it be fixed, though?


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