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0 pointseropple9y ago0 comments

Nulls exist in Scala. You can return null for an Option[T].

Can't in Kotlin, though.

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When interoperating with other libraries on the JVM you very easily can, which is a very common use case.

eroppleOP9y ago

You're right. Kotlin provides the null-or-throw operator (!!) to convert a Derp? into a Derp, though.

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0 pointseropple9y ago0 comments

Nulls exist in Scala. You can return null for an Option[T].

Can't in Kotlin, though.

When interoperating with other libraries on the JVM you very easily can, which is a very common use case.

eroppleOP9y ago

You're right. Kotlin provides the null-or-throw operator (!!) to convert a Derp? into a Derp, though.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse