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Re:Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers by tomtomtom777 on Monday September 05, 2016 @04:53AM (#12428991)
That is why you should use string formatting instead of concatenation.

For string formatting, rendering "null" (or "") makes sense; for coercion not.

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Re:Hello, I’m Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers by richardwhiuk on Monday September 05, 2016 @06:16AM (#12429271)
That just resolves into everyone always doing formatting, and never doing concatenation, which yields the same problem.
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