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by vidarh 4703 days ago
All it takes is one piece of code in the chain deciding to "helpfully" "fix" cases where people have stringified null values in a system that stringifies null to "null" by "translating them back" to null, and voila, you have a broken system.

A lot of problems like these are down to programmers that try to fix bugs by fixing the symptoms.