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James Iry

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Why Scala's "Option" and Haskell's "Maybe" types will save you from null Posted: Aug 30, 2010 10:10 AM
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Cedric Beust makes a bunch of claims in his post on Why Scala's "Option" and Haskell's "Maybe" types won't save you from null, commenters say he doesn't get it and he says nobody has argued with his main points. So I thought I'd do a careful investigation to see what, if anything, is being missed.First, right off the top here: Scala has true blue Java-like null; any reference may be null. Its

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