Null Glossary

Browse 2 null terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

2 Null Terms

Nil

A value representing the absence of data — called nil in Ruby, Lua, and Go, null in Java/JS/C#, and None in Python. Often a source of runtime errors when not...

Nullable

A type annotation indicating that a variable may hold either a valid value or null/nil/None, requiring explicit handling before use in null-safe languages.

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