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Episode 418: Functional Programming in Enterprise Applications

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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What Are the Drawbacks of Returning a Knoll?

In s sharp, all classes are knullable. So you can whiturn not an object of that class, but a nall. That would be a valid program from the compiler perspective. The problem with that is that you cannot differentiate between knollable user and nunnalable users. And so when you want a non nullable user, you thereis no way for you to do that because allclasses are nollable by default.

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