Ep 047: What Is "Nil Punning"?

We gaze into the nil and find a surprising number of things to talk about.

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This week, the question is: "What is 'nil punning'?" We gaze into the nil and find a surprising number of things to talk about.

Selected quotes:

"The lowly, magnificent nil. Some people love it, some people hate it."
"Null is the value you give your program if you want to see it die."
"Nil is not null."
"This function found nothing, and I passed that to the next function, and it found nothing in the nothing."
"It's amazing how much nothing you can find in nothing."
"You can pull data out without fear."
"What does a nil Cat look like?"
"A lot of arithmetic stuff is nil-intolerant."
"No answer isn't going to start becoming an answer later."