C# 8.0 and Nullable Reference Types

[Kent Sharkey]

MSDN Magazine[^]:

Perhaps one of the biggest problem areas in C#—and one that’s been around since C# 1.0—surrounds the fact that reference types can be null and, in fact, reference types are null by default.

"I call it my billion-dollar mistake."

[wout de zeeuw]

Sometimes I use a class with a

public static readonly MyClass Null = new MyClass();

singleton instance that does nothing to save on null checking.

Wout

[Smart K8]

It's going to be spectacular: The Great Nullification.

In order to understand stack overflow, you must first understand stack overflow.