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Null reference types promise to help developers eliminate common, difficult-to-debug null reference exceptions Credit: Zoran Zeremski/Thinkstock Nullable reference types, featured in Microsoft’s C# ...

Null or nonexistent data gets complicated when the application expects a data value and gets nothing or unexpected values; that's when you must perform coding that properly handles these situations to ...

One very good candidate, according to Tony Hoare (developer of quicksort and one of the early implementors of ALGOL), is his invention of the null reference. By allowing programmers to submit a ...