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Leo Tank
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Why Nil?

Why not NULL?

1 Answer

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
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Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

Why should it be NULL? Why are there any differences between programming languages?

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

I really thought about this question a lot and there is no answer - it's just a choice that the creators made, one of many differences between Ruby and C++ and other languages.