[Haskell-cafe] (SPAM 3)Re: handling NULL value in database query with Maybe (or other ...)

[Michael Walker]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 15:34, Damien Mattei <mattei at oca.eu> wrote:
>
> ok well i do not want to open a discussion here, but i do not see any
> benefit in Haskell using Nothing and Just compared to other language,
> it's the same than if i had written in C something like :
> if (x == NULL)
>    printf("NULL\n");
> else
>    printf("%s",*x);
>
> i expected more from Haskell...

Well, you have to remember to do that in C, but in Haskell the
compiler won't let you use a "Maybe a" as an "a".  They're totally
different things.

That seems a pretty huge benefit to me, even ignoring everything else.
What more could you want?

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Michael Walker (http://www.barrucadu.co.uk)