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Re:Is it time to stop using sentinel values for null / “NA” ... by smcin on Monday June 05, 2023 @05:33PM (#36204056)
I assume you mean the Scala type Option<Int>, and that's an integer type which can be NaN, right?
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Re:Is it time to stop using sentinel values for null / “NA” ... by msla on Monday June 05, 2023 @06:21PM (#36204869)
No, I only used Option<Int> because the person I replied to did, and I don't expect them to know what Maybe Int means.
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