Re:The Logical Disaster of Null
by coldtea on Thursday May 10, 2018 @06:20AM
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>I imagine if null is the "billion dollar mistake", then null never having existed - and relying on sentinels - would've been the trillion dollar mistake.
The whole idea is that you don't have to rely on sentinels -- and with optionals and pattern matching we didn't have, ever since the 80s or so.
The whole idea is that you don't have to rely on sentinels -- and with optionals and pattern matching we didn't have, ever since the 80s or so.