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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsHenricus Meijer, Anders Hejisberg, Dinesh Kulkarni, Vance Morrison, John Duffy, Christopher Brumme, Matthew Warren, Luca Bolognese, Peter Hallam, Gary Katzenberger
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The subject disclosure pertains to systems and methods for supporting null capabilities for general purpose programming languages. Low level, runtime support for a nullable type is provided to ensure consistency and coherency. An execution component restricts support of the nullable type to programming language types that lack a null capability. The execution component may also provide support for conversion between the nullable type and a reference type.
A computer implemented methodology for providing null support for programming language types, comprising:
A system that facilitates null support for programming language types, comprising:
A system for facilitating null support for programming language types, comprising:
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