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Subject: Re: Not null feature with anonymous and named access types
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"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
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> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
>
> > This is doubly wrong: "not null" is *not* a constraint ...
>
> True, but does anybody besides a language lawyer need to care?

Only if they remember that you can't doubly constrain a type; "not null" is
independent of that.

In any case, my primary point as that "not null" has to match on generic
instantiation.

                             Randy.