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		highwind on Feb 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nullness markers to enable flattening I believe ML family of languages do not have null. And it was developed well before Java. So I don't think timing was the issue.

pjmlp on Feb 8, 2023 [–]

Eiffel also didn't, and additionally it supports value types (expanded classes).

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