Justin Michel

I don't think that we need nearly the complicated implementation that the C# team chose. I would instead just trust the type annotation. If it says it's nullable, then just...

First, thank you for responding to my suggestion. My perspective comes from ~15 years spent writing C++ in a style that prefers use of references over pointers in 99% of...

I think this is a great discussion, and I hope we're closing in on a solution that everyone will like. I have several thoughts after re-reading and thinking about the...

My point about pattern matching being confusing is that VB already has several different concepts that could be called pattern matching. 1. If x Like y Then 2. Select Case...

I'm really confused by the whole "cat in a box" thing. I think maybe I see what you mean if you're pointing out that it's not clear what assigning Nothing...

Maybe this will help. Let's try to understand what the dotnet clr looks like behind the scenes (simplified). If you run the following VB code: ```Dim r = new MyObject()```...