That’s pretty low bar for calling something a “quirk”. The whole ML family, so OCaml, SML, Haskell, F# and perhaps a the new distant relative Rust call it also it None.
And it’s not even the same thing: null means pointer to nothing, while None means no value.
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How is None a quirk?
The way it’s written. Most programming languages call it null
That’s pretty low bar for calling something a “quirk”. The whole ML family, so OCaml, SML, Haskell, F# and perhaps a the new distant relative Rust call it also it
None.And it’s not even the same thing:
nullmeans pointer to nothing, whileNonemeans no value.