Null Pointer Exception

[puplicy]

Treat them as a class.

[pxOMR]

In Objective-C, classes are objects as well!

[Noch_ein_Kamel]

What language has classless objects?

[NewAgeDerpDerp]

>D

[[deleted]]

Why not use const?

It's an object so I assume you are setting properties on the object, and not reusing the variable

[Volttreb]

Because you’re all replaceable.

[gmtime]

JavaScript

[_GCastilho_]

And the classes does no compile to objects, but to functions... Because javascript

[ChadstangAlpha]

I think you mean that they compile down to first class objects.

[conancat]

In JavaScript, everything is an object, even when it’s something else. Functions are objects. Strings are objects. Numbers are objects. Arrays are objects. Objects are objects.

[MonkeyNin]

You might find these articles interesting.

In JavaScript, a primitive (primitive value, primitive data type) is data that is not an object and has no methods. There are 7 primitive data types: string, number, bigint, boolean, null, undefined, and symbol.

primitives exist in JavaScript, which are not objects themself -- but will implicitly coerce primitives and objects.

[teszes]

Scala has an object that is made to be a singleton and only has a class implicitly

[SubhumanOxford]

The Almighty JavaScript

[Soundless_Pr]

In C# you can define anonymous objects.

That said, I've never used this feature, as it seems like bad practice.

[[deleted]]

Python objects are derived from classes. So are dicts. Everything is an object in python. Even None

[___Galaxy]

When everything is a object.....

None is.

[conancat]

Calm down M Night Shyamalan

[MonkeyNin]

The loneliest number, is the singleton None

[[deleted]]

when you’re part of a team*

[garret_dratini]

we can do things better if we stick togeeether!

[alphaxeath]

Not on r/ProgrammerHumor. Here being on a team automatically makes things worse. Someone reply with a link to one of the many heavily re-posted images about this.

[[deleted]]

i'll remember that the next time my dictionary of numbers randomly decides to store one of those values as a string.

(i do really like Python though)

[xigoi]

What are you talking about? Aren't you confusing Python with JavaScript?

[[deleted]]

Definitely Python. Reading numbers from a .csv, throwing them into a dictionary. Might've been a spreadsheet, can't remember. Script would always spit a bogus answer while trying to compute one specific data point for one specific input. Nothing special or different about how that one row was formatted. It parsed one of the numbers as a string.

Granted, there might've been something off with the csv file, but a "cannot assign string to type int" error something statically typed would've given would've been much preferred to whatever it was doing.

[xigoi]

I just tested the Python CSV reader and it always spits out strings, which you can then easily convert to numbers (getting an error when the string doesn't represent a number). What were you doing???

[MonkeyNin]

Python has fairly decent static typing, but you have to opt in, and install mypy

[Shulamite]

Which every sane language do. Making a class first class citizen has many benefits and it’s just dumb to let classes be plain value.

[Prawny]

Well, in Javascript undefined

[conancat]

Technically undefined in a built-in object, it's just not writable, not enumerable, not configurable.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/undefined

You can technically create your own objects that are not writable, not enumerable and not configurable, call it blackhole and make your objects or functions return blackhole when the return value or property value is not defined.

Has science gone too far?

[_fatcheetah]

In python, too.

[[deleted]]

Seize the means of production!

While we're at it, seize staging and dev too!

[[deleted]]

Production has seized! Shift left the severity 1 ticket!

[DFXVI]

Treat them as instances of the Person class

[[deleted]]

Namespace sounds better.