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Semantically the two are kind of opposite; the similarity is that they're the lowest-syntax way in their respective languages to ignore the possibility of a missing value, and so get overused in situations where that possibility should not be ignored, leading to bugs.


This is exactly what I was trying to communicate in the article. You've put it in a way clearer way here though. Thank you:)




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