JuliaLang/julia — pull request #8152 by johnmyleswhite (2014-08-27 02:11:08+00:00)
Title: [WIP] Add a parametric Nullable{T} type

This adds a parametric Nullable{T} type that can represent a value of type T that may be missing. It's got a very minimal interface with the hope that this will encourage you to resolve the uncertainty of whether a value is missing as soon as possible.

Work left to do:

* [ ] Get test suite working
* [ ] Add a section to the manual based on the docs available at https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/NullableTypes.jl

I also did a little bit of whitespace removal along the way, which is hopefully forgivable.