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Allow nullable primitive types, so they can be used as return type

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Since Jul 3, 2020.

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As discussed in the Error Management Workshop (notes here).

Nullable primitive types would allow for an additional mechanism for better error handling. Instead of returning a boolean or an empty data in case a method fails, we could return a null.

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