FP is like a power saw tool you can use to cut wood or cut your fingers.
null pointer is more like a safety belt silencer. Convenient, especially when you don't want to be bothered or listen to the warning "beep". But there's no actual healthy benefit from using it.
That said, languages not providing a first class fast fixed precision/rational/decimal implementation for where precision is required, and this having been relegated to niche libs, is indeed a mistake.
null pointer is more like a safety belt silencer. Convenient, especially when you don't want to be bothered or listen to the warning "beep". But there's no actual healthy benefit from using it.
That said, languages not providing a first class fast fixed precision/rational/decimal implementation for where precision is required, and this having been relegated to niche libs, is indeed a mistake.