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How null breaks polymorphism: or the problem with null

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How null breaks polymorphism: or the problem with null Posted: Dec 31, 2006 10:05 AM
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Looking at how and why null is not polymorphic and how it dramatically breaks the "elegance" of staticly typed language by introducing frequent non-polymorphic checks for null.

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