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- Subject: Re: Idea. Removing nils from the language.
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 12:48:35 +0200
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> wrote:
> But I actually indicated that it was a horrible thing to do :)
And so it is! To reiterate what was mentioned in the comments, the
'billion dollar mistake' is a static language problem - that something
with type Foo* could actually be NULL. nil in Lua is both unique
*and* has a unique type. It does not appear to be a major source of
bugs in Lua code.
