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by nradov 2606 days ago
While this is overkill for most applications, the HL7 V3 data types used in healthcare even have multiple different "flavors" of null. So you can distinguish between "no information", "unknown", "not asked", etc.

https://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/product_brief.cfm?pr...