When does talking about #programming sound like Philosophy 101?
Teaching None
in #Python (or similar in other languages) is one of them
stuff = None
I can be heard saying the following when teaching (not quite, but dramatising a bit for effect!)
“stuff
is not empty. But we want it to be empty. But we need to put something in. So we put Python’s way of representing nothing. But None
is still an object. So it’s still something. But it’s something that represents nothingness. Is that all clear?!”
It’s a bit like when you’re told to listen to silence in a meditation exercise?!
@SignalsAndSorcery The static v. dynamic typing debate is one that will go on forever. There’s a place for both, I feel, depending on the use case…
@s_gruppetta fair enough :)