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val x: String = null // error: found `Null`, but required `String`
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```
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- Instead, to mark a type as nullable we use a [ type union] ( https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/new-types/union-types.html )
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+ Instead, to mark a type as nullable we use a [ union type ] ( https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/new-types/union-types.html )
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```
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val x: String|Null = null // ok
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ More details can be found in [safe initialization](./safe-initialization.md).
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## Equality
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We don't allow the double-equal (` == ` and ` != ` ) and reference (` eq ` and ` ne ` ) comparison between
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- ` AnyRef ` and ` Null ` anymore, since a variable with a non-nullable type cannot have null as value.
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+ ` AnyRef ` and ` Null ` anymore, since a variable with a non-nullable type cannot have ` null ` as value.
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` null ` can only be compared with ` Null ` , nullable union (` T | Null ` ), or ` Any ` type.
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For some reason, if we really want to compare ` null ` with non-null values, we have to provide a type hint (e.g. ` : Any ` ).
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val x : String = ???
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val y : String | Null = ???
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- x == null // error: Values of types String and Null cannot be compared with == or !=
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- x eq null // error
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- " hello" == null // error
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+ x == null // error: Values of types String and Null cannot be compared with == or !=
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+ x eq null // error
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+ " hello" == null // error
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y == null // ok
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y == x // ok
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ So far, we have found the following useful:
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This means that given `x: String|Null` , `x.nn` has type `String` , so we can call all the
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usual methods on it. Of course, `x.nn` will throw a NPE if `x` is `null`.
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- Don ' t use `.nn` on mutable variables directly, which may introduce unknown value into the type .
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+ Don ' t use `.nn` on mutable variables directly, because it may introduce an unknown type into the type of the variable .
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## Java Interop
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* the type of fields
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- `UncheckedNull` is an alias for `Null` with magic properties (see below). We illustrate the rules with following examples :
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+ `UncheckedNull` is an alias for `Null` with magic properties (see [ below]( # uncheckednull) ). We illustrate the rules with following examples :
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* The first two rules are easy : we nullify reference types but not value types.
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@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ We are able to detect the nullability of some local mutable variables. A simple
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class C (val x : Int , val next : C | Null )
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var xs : C | Null = C (1 , C (2 , null ))
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+ // xs is trackable, since all assignments are in the same method
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while (xs != null ) {
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// xs: C
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val xsx : Int = xs.x
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