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+1 This is the "least astonishment" argument with respect to developers against empty strings. No developer that comes later would ever expect that empty strings would be used to represent "no email address".

Thomas
– Thomas

2012-08-08 15:51:34 +00:00
Commented Aug 8, 2012 at 15:51
Finally, an answer that does make some sense in the pages/answers that I checked. I'm not a native English speaker, and I'm not living in an English speaking country. So most of the arguments presented to distinguish empty string from NULL makes little sense to me (at least yet).

akinuri
– akinuri

2020-03-07 10:24:33 +00:00
Commented Mar 7, 2020 at 10:24

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