Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 7 months agoNot a Numberjemmy.jeena.netexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1372arrow-down19file-text
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minus-squarenickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoYeah… It’s weird but I find it useful that it is, in a weird way. Treating it as an uncertainty means that one MUST explicitly check all pointers for nil as part of normal practice. This avoids NPEs.
Yeah… It’s weird but I find it useful that it is, in a weird way. Treating it as an uncertainty means that one MUST explicitly check all pointers for
nil
as part of normal practice. This avoids NPEs.