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submitted 4 months ago by sus@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] kubica@fedia.io 65 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Empty string used to be like my own version of null pointer.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 48 points 4 months ago

Oh, you worked at Oracle by any chance?

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dark times…

Like -1 for an Int nil value.

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Which language can nil an int?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Just cast it. /s

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Probably some monad magic idk functional programming.

[–] baines@lemmy.cafe 10 points 4 months ago

easy there satan