Deprecated vs Null - What's the difference?
deprecated | null |
(deprecate)
Strongly disapproved of.
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Belittled; insulted
(computing) Obsolescent]]; said of a construct in a computing language considered old, and planned to be [[phase out, phased out, but still available for use.
* 2002 , Steven E. Callihan, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by Example
* 1999 . Raggett, Dave, et. al. HTML 4.01 Specification ,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As a verb deprecated
is (deprecate).As an adjective deprecated
is strongly disapproved of.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.deprecated
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Just because an element or attribute is deprecated doesn't mean that it can't be used on a webpage.
Conformance: requirements and recommendations. W3C
- A deprecated element or attribute is one that has been outdated by newer constructs.
- Note that deprecated functions are not removed.
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.