C++ - No More Nulls! - Fixing the Billion Dollar Mistake

C++ - No More Nulls! - Fixing the Billion Dollar Mistake

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References over pointers

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References over pointers

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C++ - No More Nulls! - Fixing the Billion Dollar Mistake

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 Outline
  3. 3 Optional parameter
  4. 4 Late initialisation of member
  5. 5 Dereferencing is undefined behaviour
  6. 6 Unclear APIs
  7. 7 Why is static typing good?
  8. 8 What does null do to static typing?
  9. 9 Conflating notions
  10. 10 Values which can be missing
  11. 11 Techniques which allow for missing values
  12. 12 References over pointers
  13. 13 Values over pointers
  14. 14 Return values
  15. 15 Use the standard library
  16. 16 Maybe techniques are for maybe values
  17. 17 std::optional
  18. 18 Bug classification Where
  19. 19 Remaining pointers
  20. 20 Tackle maybe pointers
  21. 21 Tackle definite pointers
  22. 22 A bright future

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