alt Hacker NewsThat can work in some situations. One thing I won't like about it in some other situations is that you now have 2 nullable fields associated with your user, or whatever that email is associated with. It's annoying or even impossible in a lot of systems to have a guaranteed validation that user.UnvalidatedEmail or user.ValidatedEmail must exist but not both.
I see. In my example they would be just types and internally a newtype string.
So an object could have a field
email: UnvalidatedEmail | ValidatedEmail
Nothing would be nullable there in that case. You could match on the type and break if not all cases are handled.