questions on nullability

[P T Withington]

> From: Lars T Hansen <lth at opera.com>
> Date: 15 June 2006 05:26:57 EDT
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> The entire reason that the class definition can be annotated is to
> make it easier for the programmer not to have to worry about null when
> using classes for which a null value does not make sense.

Hi Lars,

Just curious why the default is to permit null.  Seems to me that it  
is more common for it _not_ to make sense for a type to include the  
null value.  Is it just that that would be too great a departure from  
Javascript 1?

[Just getting up to speed on this project, great to see you on it!]

P T Withington

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