On Monday, June 4, 2012 9:35:50 AM UTC+2, Ricky Clarkson wrote:
>
> Option isn't the same as the null object pattern, because null objects get 
> used as if they were real objects whereas code dealing with Options looks 
> different.  It has to contain some form of check or lifting of a function.
>
I didn't say it was. I just added C# to Cédric's list of languages (Groovy, 
Fantom and Kotlin) which adopted an up-front way of dealing with null, 
rather than burying the concept as a NOP.

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