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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's pretty low bar for calling something a "quirk". The whole ML family, so OCaml, SML, Haskell, F# and perhaps a the new distant relative Rust call it also it None.

And it's not even the same thing: null means pointer to nothing, while None means no value.