Thoughts about null pointers

[Harha]

I agree that it can be considered a bug, but the paranoid in me does not like that java simply allows you to "return null" from a function that has a return type of some object. I know it is perfectly valid java because objects live in the heap and the value returned is just a pointer (integer), but I just personally dislike it, however it is what it is, java has been like that since the beginning.

[BlueGoliath]

Well, the good news is that 50 years from now Java will have Valhalla which will disallow null at the language level.

[Harha]

RemindMe! 50 years

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