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How do we make it better? Languages like Swift, OCaml, and others have a different expression of the concept. Optional typed languages let you express “I have a value of type X or nothing at all”, and the compiler forces you to handle that possibility. Have you ever worked

This logical overloading of the null reference is not only confusing, but can often cause problems very distant from the source. Omitting a null check often results in the infamous NullPointerException. C, C++, Go, and even Java to some extent are susceptible. https://t.co/GVYiPzeUwk