To me, as a developer and as a user, I find the empty string ("") useless and the cause of much confusion, it’s like saying string == char[]
Maybe computers need the empty string, so I’d like to learn why.
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To me, as a developer and as a user, I find the empty string ("") useless and the cause of much confusion, it’s like saying string == char[]
Maybe computers need the empty string, so I’d like to learn why.
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One could argue that the empty string is an instance of the Null Object Pattern. As Anthony pointed out, this is used to avoid special cases and lots of
ifs.