Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers

Re:Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers by hoppa_liza on Sunday September 04, 2016 @08:50PM (#12427495)

> half of other players' offences were attributed to them due to null in Java being cast to 'null' curing concatenation

Why would half of the players have a playername of null?

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Re:Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers by woliveirajr on Sunday September 04, 2016 @08:52PM (#12427497)

He meant "attributed to him", I think.

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Re:Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers by Biganon on Sunday September 04, 2016 @11:29PM (#12427913)

No, they don't know whether the player "null" was male or female, therefore they used the pronoun "they", which is correct.

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Re:Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers by adwn on Monday September 05, 2016 @12:40AM (#12428144)

> the pronoun "they", which is correct

It's also highly ambiguous in this specific case (I had trouble understanding the sentence, too), and a simple "him/her" would have been preferable.

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Re:Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers by woliveirajr on Monday September 05, 2016 @07:25AM (#12429525)

Got it (really didn't knew this use of "they").

Reading back, perhaps "the player" would be better than "they", if it was just one player having problems.

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