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Just what every programming language needs, not one, but two types of null! Because nobody ever said one type was difficult enough.
If I see any of you make this distinction matter for anything other than "PUT vs. PATCH" semantics I'm going to be very angry.
I do this constantly.
undefined
: not retrieved yet.null
: Error when retrieving. Makes it easy to reason about what the current state of the data is without the need for additional status flags.