Distinction of null and empty [was Re: Ceylon language]

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jesse Phillips" <jessekphillips+D at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:io7oov$21d8$1 at digitalmars.com...
> spir Wrote:
>
>> This also leads to actual distinction of null and [] or "" for arrays &
>> strings. Just dreaming...
>
> Really? You want this? I really like that a null array is equal to an 
> empty array.
>

I've thought about that and I don't know how I feel about it. On one hand, I 
can certainly image cases where the distiction between null and empty would 
be useful. But OTOH, after having to put up with the nightmare of VB6's "One 
million distinct ways to have a string that doesn't contain anything", I'm 
hesitent at embracing extra ways to have "ain't nuthin' here".