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Re:Why Haskell? by the_af on Thursday September 12, 2024 @04:52PM (#41525433)
> Again, the penalty (verbose missing values ie. Optional<>) was adopted, and the reward (confidently-present values) was not.

Ah, the joys of having a Scala `Option` type and still having to consider the cases or Some[thing], Nothing and... null!

Yes, well-written Scala code knows not to use null with reckless abandon, but since when your coworkers coming from Java know to show restraint?

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