Dylan 'nullable' types [Was: Close review of Language Overview whitepaper]

[David Teller]

I guess it's one of these things we may try and static-analyze-away.

Cheers,
 David

P.S.:
 Should I mention OCaml's option types or Haskell's maybes at this
point ?

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 14:06 -0800, Graydon Hoare wrote:
> P T Withington wrote:
> 
> > I must say, coming from Dylan, es3's undefined _and_ null seem like  
> > overkill... but we're stuck with them now!
> 
> I think they feel like overkill to everyone, but yeah. Backward 
> compatibility!
> 
> -Graydon