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Asked: 2026-06-18T01:48:07+00:00

The part I don’t understand is the point of having the String representation of

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The part I don’t understand is the point of having the String representation of null be the String “null”. What’s the rationale behind that functionality in Java?

Is there a deeper answer than “that’s just the way it is” in Java?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to see that a value is null, you expect to see null.

    System.out.println(null);

    prints

    null

    And

    Integer a = null;
System.out.println("a= " + a);

    prints as you would expect

    a= null

    As to why C# doesn’t do this, I don’t know. I imagine the designers made different assumptions about what null means. IMHO it shouldn’t be the same as an empty string.

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