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Re:Cold Showers by creakingstairs on Saturday June 18, 2022 @09:48PM (#31795412)
They all have nulls but a static lang will warn you that the value can be null.
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Re:Cold Showers by tene on Saturday June 18, 2022 @10:35PM (#31795621)
This is false. There are plenty of languages without pervasive implicit nullability. Check out Haskell and Rust and Ocaml.
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Re:Cold Showers by creakingstairs on Saturday June 18, 2022 @11:53PM (#31796015)
You are right. I should have said some. The point I wanted to make was that having type safety is better for checking null than having no type at all.
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