Le lundi 21 mars 2016, 17:04:30 Facundo Martinez Correa a écrit :
> But then I realized the problem. There
> are many times where we need uncertainty. Code is a reflection of reality,
> and as such, it must reflect uncertainty. NULL is a good enough way to
> express nonexistence, albeit a bad one. We have been using it in code for
> years, but it is also used to say many things. Things that cause
> uncertainty in the code. I receive a null, does it mean it doesn't exists?
> That it will exist? Should I allow it? Is it a good value? I for sure don't
> know. And in my experience, I have used it for many of those cases. And in
> many situations that I'm not proud of, all of them at the same time.

If your function is supposed to return a User and can’t, maybe it should throw 
an Exception.
Just wanted to point out it can be a good alternative to returning NULL for 
error handling.

Côme

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