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As I was reading around on StackOverflow, digging through other peoples source code, I spotted multiple methods returning null in a variety of circumstances. I also found rather imaginative ways to handle null-values. Although there is nothing wrong with null, the concept of null-pointers seems to be somewhat misunderstood. Let’s change that. What are null-pointers? Wikipedia has the following to say: A null pointer has a value reserved for indicating that the pointer does not refer to a valid object.

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