[article] Language Design Deal Breakers

[bearophile]

Timon Gehr:

>> Even if it's not a big problem, in the end this problem is now 
>> "solved",
>> because all new languages (Scala,
>
> scala> val s : String = null;
> s: String = null
> scala> s(0)
> java.lang.NullPointerException

Thank you. Are nulls used in Scala outside the strict needs of 
interacting with Java libraries?

Bye,
bearophile