Re:The Logical Disaster of Null
by wool_gather on Thursday May 10, 2018 @08:45AM
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Your comment seems to be missing the point of the parent. It wasn't saying that adding this field was a good thing to do. In fact, it relies on the extra field being self-evidently ridiculous -- it was saying that there's no way to avoid doing something.
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Re:The Logical Disaster of Null
by tathougies on Thursday May 10, 2018 @10:32AM
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The parent said any solution implemented within the language would be worse. Decades of experience with actual tagged unions would seem to indicate otherwise