Python slang

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> I don't ask about `None` instead of `null` because I suppose here it's
>> a matter of disambiguation (null, in many languages, is not equal to
>> null).
>
> Really? Which languages? That's not true in Pascal, C, Ruby or Javascript.
>

SQL (shown here with PostgreSQL's CLI):

rosuav=> \pset null NULL
Null display is "NULL".
rosuav=> select NULL = NULL;
 ?column?
----------
 NULL
(1 row)

But SQL's NULL is a cross between C's NULL, IEEE's NaN, Cthulhu, and Emrakul.

ChrisA