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Ep 047: What Is "Nil Punning"?
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Each week, we answer a different question about Clojure and functional programming.
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This week, the question is: "What is 'nil punning'?" We gaze into the nil and find a surprising number of things to talk about.
Selected quotes:
- "The lowly, magnificent nil. Some people love it, some people hate it."
- "Null is the value you give your program if you want to see it die."
- "Nil is not null."
- "This function found nothing, and I passed that to the next function, and it found nothing in the nothing."
- "It's amazing how much nothing you can find in nothing."
- "You can pull data out without fear."
- "What does a nil Cat look like?"
- "A lot of arithmetic stuff is nil-intolerant."
- "No answer isn't going to start becoming an answer later."
118 episodes
Manage episode 242569925 series 2463849
Each week, we answer a different question about Clojure and functional programming.
If you have a question you'd like us to discuss, tweet @clojuredesign, send an email to feedback@clojuredesign.club, or join the #clojuredesign-podcast
channel on the Clojurians Slack.
This week, the question is: "What is 'nil punning'?" We gaze into the nil and find a surprising number of things to talk about.
Selected quotes:
- "The lowly, magnificent nil. Some people love it, some people hate it."
- "Null is the value you give your program if you want to see it die."
- "Nil is not null."
- "This function found nothing, and I passed that to the next function, and it found nothing in the nothing."
- "It's amazing how much nothing you can find in nothing."
- "You can pull data out without fear."
- "What does a nil Cat look like?"
- "A lot of arithmetic stuff is nil-intolerant."
- "No answer isn't going to start becoming an answer later."
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