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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://ruby.social/users/codefolio/statuses/110448463476540266">Noah Gibbs (codefolio@ruby.social)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 06:38:38 JST</a><a href="https://ruby.social/@codefolio" title="codefolio@ruby.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/106655-48-20230525125357.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Noah Gibbs" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Noah Gibbs</a><div><a href="https://ruby.social/@codefolio/110448456089386842" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands">@inthehands</a> It's a special value of a different type, so you avoid the whole "nil is a subtype of everything" problem.</p><p>In Ruby nil isn't a subtype of everything *and* it has some methods.</p><p>So if that's the distinguishing feature of null-as-an-abstraction-across-langs then Ruby's nil isn't one.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/1587264#notice-3150286">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-05-29T06:38:38+09:00" title="Monday, 29-May-2023 06:38:38 JST">Monday, 29-May-2023 06:38:38 JST</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://ruby.social/@codefolio/110448463476540266" rel="external" title="Sent from ruby.social via ActivityPub">ruby.social</a></span></span><a href="https://ruby.social/@codefolio/110448463476540266">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="http://problem.In/">http://problem.In/</a></h5><div></div></header><div></div><footer></footer></article></li><li><article><header><div>No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.</div><h5><a href="http://www.methods.so/">methods.so - Registered at Namecheap.com</a></h5><div></div></header><div></div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Noah Gibbs (codefolio@ruby.social)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 06:38:38 JSTNoah Gibbs
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@inthehands It's a special value of a different type, so you avoid the whole "nil is a subtype of everything" problem.
In Ruby nil isn't a subtype of everything *and* it has some methods.
So if that's the distinguishing feature of null-as-an-abstraction-across-langs then Ruby's nil isn't one.
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