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Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by tsimionescu on Thursday October 03, 2019 @05:18PM (#21152337)
To be pedantic, Java perfectly encodes the information that a piece of data can be missing - any type supports null as a valid value. What it can't do is encode the information that a piece of data CAN'T be missing.
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Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by bspammer on Thursday October 03, 2019 @05:55PM (#21152658)
To be even more pedantic, Java's primitive types (int instead of Integer etc.) have this feature. They can't be null.
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