cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10094818
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Gender variability as declarations in JavaScript: const / let / varMeme is based on Jordan Peterson "approival / disapproval" format, him being a conservative who disapproves of gender fluidity.
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- Jordan Peterson approval image: const gender;
- Jordan Peterson angry image: let gender;
- Jordan Peterson crying image: var gender;
There are two kinds of "null" that are often called out as mistakes, you may be thinking of. One is the null reference, as found in languages like C and Java, which Tony Hoare, who created it for ALGOL back in the sixties, has called his "billion dollar mistake". The other is the three-valued-logic of null in SQL, which is almost as bad.
There's nothing wrong with "null", necessarily, in other contexts, although I do think a more clear name for whatever it means in any given context might be better.