Lexicon

Define Absence Semantics

Kind: technique

Layer: Contracts Core

Record: lexicon:define-absence-semantics

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for choosing one representation for a missing value and stating what it means at the boundary.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Narrow Type and before Binary Schema Encoding.

Category

  • Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics

Refactors

  • Null Semantics Drift

Linked from

  • Anti-patterns