Re:A Conversation with Language Creators: Guido, James, Ande...
by tybit on Thursday April 04, 2019 @02:55AM
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The problem isn’t actually null perse, it’s an implicit null.
E.g. it’s perfectly fine to say you might have an empty value via ‘Foo | null’ or ‘Foo?’ or with something like null, ‘Maybe Foo’ but to sneak it into plain old ‘Foo’ is problematic (a billion dollars worth of problems).
E.g. it’s perfectly fine to say you might have an empty value via ‘Foo | null’ or ‘Foo?’ or with something like null, ‘Maybe Foo’ but to sneak it into plain old ‘Foo’ is problematic (a billion dollars worth of problems).