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@foresmac @normative Yep, tell that especially to the weakly-typed languages, layers of software dependencies, and programmers in a hurry.
@zeynep @normative Even “weakly-typed” languages usually distinguish between “Null” and None (python), nil (ruby), null (javascript).
@zeynep @normative But having the name “Null” isn’t even a new or unknown edge case; this problem has existed for years.
@foresmac @normative And some of these systems have layers of code older than either of us. Can also be typing errors in compilers etc.
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