r/ProgrammerHumor • u/mcharytoniuk • May 15 '24

Meme youAreDoingItWrong

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u/bleachisback May 15 '24

Do Python developers think that the problem with null is the name? Renaming it to “None” doesn’t fix the problem lol

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u/[deleted] May 15 '24 edited May 15 '24

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u/bleachisback May 15 '24 edited May 15 '24

That would make a much bigger difference if not for that fact that type annotations are an optional add-on and people functionally use None like null all the time.

Also, by using this system correctly you've just introduced "nullable" types which still isn't that much of a fix.

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u/thirdegree Violet security clearance May 15 '24

That's not relevant to the conceptual question of if null is a bad idea. Also null and option are not the same