[article] Language Design Deal Breakers

[deadalnix]

On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 01:31:11 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> scala> val s : String = null;
> s: String = null
> scala> s(0)
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>

In scala, null must be scoped. In REPL, the scope is infinite, so 
is the appearance of null. Still, scala's null is more 
restrictive than what exists in most languages.