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Actually not funny (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by genfood@feddit.de to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Isn't NULL a macro in C for 0? So doesn't that mean these items are free?

[–] Haus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd guess, in context, it's a floating point price column that hasn't been set, and the table designer didn't specify the column to be NOT NULL.

[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I guess Rust would have solved the problem as well.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Null is zero in german - so this must be free, it's a german shop

[–] coloredgrayscale@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

In a way it's still the same with more modern languages. Especially OOP, setting an object to Null is just setting the address pointer to to 0x00000000.

Hence NullPointerException / NullReferenceException or similar, depending on the language.