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Marty Alchin recently posted about the “evils” of returning None (or nil or null depending on your language of choice). I think
he has it basically right. Sure
there are situations where returning nil1 is
appropriate, but they are pretty rare. For example, if a method
actually does what the client asked and there is [...]
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