Re: [article] Language Design Deal Breakers

[Timon Gehr]

On 05/26/2013 03:37 AM, bearophile wrote:
Timon Gehr:
Even if it's not a big problem, in the end this problem is now "solved",
because all new languages (Scala,

scala> val s : String = null;
s: String = null
scala> s(0)
java.lang.NullPointerException

Thank you. Are nulls used in Scala outside the strict needs of
interacting with Java libraries?

Bye,
bearophile

I'd assume it is more idiomatic to use explicit option types. In any 
case, Scala allows dereferencing nullable refences.