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Tony Hoare calls it (null) his Billion Dollar Mistake. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billion-Dollar-Mistake-Tony-Hoare/ https://www.i
by tialaramex 3y ago
Tony Hoare calls it (null) his Billion Dollar Mistake.
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billion-Dollar-Mistake-Tony-Hoare/ https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Bill...
- fud101 3y agoWe use None in Python - is that similar?
- nextaccountic 3y agoYes, and no dynamically typed language can do much better than this, because in those your value of type X can always be another type (and you need to defensively check if you want to catch errors)