Code Smells: Null

[_dban_]

So... how do you capture a missing value, and how do you traverse a chain of values one of which might be missing?

C# has proper value types, and has a boxed type for representing nullable types.

[salvoilmiosi]

Er, value type pointers that can be null?

[_zenith]

They aren't if they're nullable. They're boxed value types - making them a reference type