The fact that safe language implementations have to think hard about how to handle null pointer exceptions safely should have been a warning sign that null pointers are a bad thing to have in a language. Sadly nearly always unheeded.
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Replying to @pcwalton
So optionals are something different for the purposes of code generation? Because coders have to explicitly check for unset values and you can then just assume it's not nil?
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