Maybe Not - Rich Hickey

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A provocative but carefully argued talk on type-system and data-modelling design; widely discussed by HN readers.

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Rich Hickey critiques Maybe/Option types and proposes thinking about optionality in terms of schemas and context instead.

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Part of Clojure/conj 2018, Rich Hickey Talks

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