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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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Good price.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah... It's weird but I find it useful that it is, in a weird way. Treating it as an uncertainty means that one MUST explicitly check all pointers for nil as part of normal practice. This avoids NPEs.