nil

Objective-C has a neat little thing called nil, which represents the absence of an object. It’s like null in Java or JavaScript, or NULL in C, but with one important difference: you can call methods on it.

“Bwah?” you say, wondering why that would be a feature rather than a bug. Yes, that was my first reaction too. But after much use, I have decided that it is indeed a feature.

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