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> > There are many times when it doesn’t make sense to have a null. Unfortunately, if the language permits anything to be null, well, anything can be null.

> That's not an argument. See above.

It is actually their best point, IMO. I really like how RDBMS/SQL solve this: fields hold values and you specify beforehand whether they can hold NULLs. The author is right, sometimes it does not make sense for variables to be null-able (think ID fields or usernames) but often it does (e.g. a user's avatar). Being able to indicate that would be a nice idea. C++ for example does that, as `Field x` is not nullable but `Field* x` is.



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