This morning I tweeted this: Just found a C# 8 nullable reference types warning in Noda Time. Fixing it by changing Foo(x, x?.Bar) to Foo(x, x?.Bar!) which looks really dodgy… anyone want to guess why it’s okay? This attracted more interest than I expected, so I thought I’d blog about it. First let’s unpack what … Continue reading Lying to…
#c# 8
3 posts
25 May 2019
10 Feb 2019
Background: Noda Time and C# 8 Note: this blog post was written based on experimentation with Visual Studio 2019 preview 2.2. It’s possible that some of the details here will change over time. C# 8 is nearly here. At least, it’s close enough to being “here” that there are preview builds of Visual Studio 2019 … Continue reading NullableAttribute and…
21 Apr 2018
This blog post is effectively a log of my experience with the preview of the C# 8 nullable reference types feature. There are lots of caveats here: it’s mostly “as I go along” so there may well be backtracking. I’m not advising the right thing to do, as I’m still investigating that myself. And of … Continue reading First steps…