A linter is supposed to tell you "you are probably making a mistake." "= NULL" is as syntactically correct in SQL as "if (x = null)" in C. If it wasn't, code

A linter is supposed to tell you "you are probably making a mistake." "= NULL" is as syntactically correct in SQL as "if (x = null)" in C. If it wasn't, code highlighting or compiling would break, both of which are much much more obvious.